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| − | Whenever a paper is scheduled for presentation, everybody not presenting the paper is responsible for handing out at the beginning of the class a one-page (possibly two pages) with a summary of the paper, in 3 parts: | + | Whenever a paper is scheduled for presentation or discussion, everybody not presenting the paper is responsible for handing out at the beginning of the class a one-page (possibly two pages) with a summary of the paper, in 3 parts: |
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| + | <font color="red">You can, however, drop any one homework assignment and any one reading assignment without penalty.</font> If you do not drop any assignment and do not drop any assigned reading, I will remove the ones with the lowest grade automatically. | ||
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| + | You can pick between 3 options for the final grade. If you do not make your choice known <font color="red">before the last day of class</font>, Option 1, the original grading option, will be used. | ||
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| − | Class participation <br /> | + | Class participation (summaries, class notes, discussion) <br /> |
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| + | Projects (equal weight for all 3)<br /> | ||
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| + | ==Option 3 == | ||
| + | Option 3 is the same as Option 1 but with more weight for Project 3. | ||
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Latest revision as of 23:38, 9 May 2010
Contents
Prof
Dominique Thiébaut email
Dept. Computer Science
Ford Hall 356
Telephone: 3854
Office hours TBA and by appointments
Introduction
The class mixes lectures, the reading and presentation of research papers, and programming assignments/projects.
We next switch scale and work with distributed processing and explore grid computing with Apple's XGrid environment on Smith College's 88-processor XGrid cluster, and a project caps this unit.
Class Notes
Everybody will be responsible for transcribing the notes for the class and posting them on the wiki, in a rotation pattern (roughly once a month for each person in the class).
Homework assignments/Projects
There will be homework assignments and 3 projects. The homework assignments will be used to create various solutions that will be included in the projects.
There will be 3 projects, roughly one month apart, and capping the material covered in each section. More details will be available as we go along. The current project ideas are the following:
- Project 1
- Threading in Python: given two lists of keywords, List1 and List2, retrieve docs from a site (xgridmac.dyndns.org, yahoo, google) that respond/match List1. Filter the docs received and keep only those that contain most of the words in List2.
- Project 2
- XGrid: process a gzip xml dump of wikipedia and break it up into individual pages (9 million or so of them)!
- Project 3
- Map-Reduce: process wikipedia pages and create an index of words and their associated categories
- Project 4
- Setup of Cloud Cluster. Self-scheduled, lasting until Spring break. Teams of two students will setup a PC with Ubuntu and Hadoop and contribute to documentation (Wiki Setup Page)
Smith Cloud
6 PCs recovered from Burton Basement are awaiting to be reincarnated in a networked cluster of Ubuntu machines running the hadoop software. Once initialized and connected together they will form Smith's first cloud computing platform. One of the required projects for the class is for students to pair up in teams and each setup one of the computers, documenting the process in the class wiki.
Presentations
We'll read, present and discuss papers during the semester. Most papers are already posted on the Links & Resources page. More information will be available as we proceed through the semester.
Whenever a paper is scheduled for presentation or discussion, everybody not presenting the paper is responsible for handing out at the beginning of the class a one-page (possibly two pages) with a summary of the paper, in 3 parts:
- a one-sentence summary of the paper
- a one-paragraph summary of the paper
- a half-page summary of the paper.
Prerequisites
Algorithms CSC252, or permission of the instructor. A good knowledge of C and Java is important.
Schedule
The class meets twice a week, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 10:30 am - 11:50 am, in Ford Hall 342.
Textbook
There are no textbooks for this course. The Web has a rich collection of documents we'll be using and which are catalogued in the Links & Resources page.
Other Sources of Material
The science library has a good collection of books on parallel processing and algorithms that you might find useful for supplementing the material presented and covered in class. "Parallel algorithm", "Parallel Programming," or "Grid Computing" are good keywords to start a search on.
Lateness Policy
No late assignment/paper summariy/project will be accepted (except in case of documented illness or personal difficulties). Do your work on time!
You can, however, drop any one homework assignment and any one reading assignment without penalty. If you do not drop any assignment and do not drop any assigned reading, I will remove the ones with the lowest grade automatically.
Grading
You can pick between 3 options for the final grade. If you do not make your choice known before the last day of class, Option 1, the original grading option, will be used.
Option 1
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Class participation (summaries, class notes, discussion) |
10% |
Option 2
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Class participation (summaries, class notes, discussion) |
15% |
Option 3
Option 3 is the same as Option 1 but with more weight for Project 3.
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Class participation (summaries, class notes, discussion) |
10% |
Teaching Assistants
No TA for this class.
