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** Comments on '''bimonthly newsletter''' | ** Comments on '''bimonthly newsletter''' | ||
*** The format should be similar to the [http://technews.acm.org/ ACM Tech News] format. | *** The format should be similar to the [http://technews.acm.org/ ACM Tech News] format. | ||
| − | *** The | + | *** The header should contain a '''title''', your '''name''', the '''class''' (CSC352) and the '''date''' |
*** Each paragraph should have a header with a title, the source of news, the date, and possibly a link to the full article. | *** Each paragraph should have a header with a title, the source of news, the date, and possibly a link to the full article. | ||
*** The paragraph describing a news item should be between 3 to 10 lines, give or take. | *** The paragraph describing a news item should be between 3 to 10 lines, give or take. | ||
| − | *** 1 full page to 2 pages, depending on the richness of events in the technology field | + | *** Write 1 full page to 2 pages, depending on the richness of events in the technology field |
| − | *** Topics: anything related to parallelism: computers, mobile platforms, cloud, companies, new software, new algorithms, conferences, people in the field. | + | *** Feel free to present ''N''-1 topics with just 3 lines, and 1 topic which you highlight with a longer paragraph. |
| + | *** '''Topics''': anything related to ''parallelism'': computers, mobile platforms, cloud, companies, new software, new algorithms, conferences, people in the field, etc. | ||
*** Good sources of information to get started: | *** Good sources of information to get started: | ||
**** the [http://technews.acm.org/ ACM Tech News] | **** the [http://technews.acm.org/ ACM Tech News] | ||
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**** The Official Google blog | **** The Official Google blog | ||
**** Review: Tom's Hardware | **** Review: Tom's Hardware | ||
| − | **** Some of the sites listed in [http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2008/11/15/top-40-technology-news-sites-the-definitive-guide/ blorge.com]'s top 40 list. | + | **** Some of the sites listed in [http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2008/11/15/top-40-technology-news-sites-the-definitive-guide/ blorge.com]'s top-40 list. |
*** Recommendation for news aggregator: [http://cloud.feedly.com/#welcome Feedly.com] | *** Recommendation for news aggregator: [http://cloud.feedly.com/#welcome Feedly.com] | ||
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| − | * '''Homework''': play with Latex. Find or adapt a document template | + | * '''Homework''': play with Latex. Find or adapt a document template for your needs (minimalist is the name of the game at this point), and start gathering news bits. <font color="red">First newsletter due '''Thursday Sept. 19th'''.</font> The ACM Tech News format is a good and simple format to emulate. |
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* Definition of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_(computing) Process] | * Definition of a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process_(computing) Process] | ||
Revision as of 19:10, 4 September 2013
--D. Thiebaut (talk) 11:15, 9 August 2013 (EDT)
Weekly Schedule
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Links and Resources
On-Line Resources
- Introduction to Parallel Processing, by Blaise Barney, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. A good read. Covers most of the important topics.
- Introduction to MPI, by Blaise Barney, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Another short but excellent coverage of a topic in parallel processing, this time MPI.
- A 90-Minute Guide to Modern Microprocessors
Classics
- Designing and Building Parallel Programs, by Ian Foster. A relatively old reference (1995), with still good information.
Papers
- A View of Cloud Computing, 2010, By Armbrust, Michael and Fox, Armando and Griffith, Rean and Joseph, Anthony D. and Katz, Randy and Konwinski, Andy and Lee, Gunho and Patterson, David and Rabkin, Ariel and Stoica, Ion and Zaharia, Matei.
- The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing (Draft) (very short paper)
- Nobody ever got fired for using Hadoop on a cluster, Rowstron, Antony and Narayanan, Dushyanth and Donnelly, Austin and O'Shea, Greg and Douglas, Andrew
- The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View From Berkely, 2006, still good! (very long paper)
- Update on a view from Berkeley, 2010. (short paper)
- General-Purpose vs. GPU: Comparisons of Many-Cores on Irregular Workloads, 2010
- Parallel Computing with Patterns and Frameworks, 2010, XRDS.
- Server Virtualization Architecture and Implementation, xrds, 2009.
- Processing Wikipedia Dumps: A Case-Study comparing the XGrid and MapReduce Approaches, D. Thiebaut, Yang Li, Diana Jaunzeikare, Alexandra Cheng, Ellysha Raelen Recto, Gillian Riggs, Xia Ting Zhao, Tonje Stolpestad, and Cam Le T Nguyen, in proceedings of 1st Int'l Conf. On Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER 2011), Noordwijkerhout, NL, May 2011. (longer version)
- Beyond Hadoop, Gregory Mone, CACM, 2013. (short paper).
- Understanding Throughput-Oriented Architectures, CACM, 2010.
- Learning from the Success of MPI, by WIlliam D. Gropp, Argonne National Lab, 2002.
- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Data, by Halevy, Norvig, Pereira, IEEE Intelligent Systems, IEEE Intelligent Systems, March 2009, Vol. 24, No. 2, pp. 8-12.
