CSC352 Class Page 2010

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Projects

  • Project 1: Started Feb 16, due March 2nd. A good example of a solution.
  • Project 2: Deals with the Xgrid
  • Project 3: Will deal with Hadoop
  • Project 4 has officially started on 1/26/10! and is now Over. Find its shared wiki page here! Congratulations to the class for setting up the individual nodes of the first Smith Cloud Cluster!
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Python Threads

Week Topics Reading
Week 1
1/25
  • Tuesday
    • Introduce Syllabus
    • Interrupts
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  • Thursday
    • The PogoPlug...
    • The iPad...
    • Python Review
      • NQueens.py: a python program to find the first solution for N queens on an NxN board.

Read
  • What is a Thread? [1]
  • What is a Processes? [2]
Reference material for when we start programming
For Discussion next Tuesday
  • read the paper by Asanovic K. et al, The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkeley.
Week 2
2/1

 

Week 3
2/8

Week 4
2/15


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XGrid Programming

Week Topics Reading
Week 5

Week 6


Week 7


 

 

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Week 8

  • Tuesday
    • Sign-up for paper presentations here!
    • Class participation on the decomposition of Homework 3/Project 2 (the serial part)
  • Thursday
    • Continuation of decomposition of Homework 3/Project 2 (the parallel part)
    • XGrid Lab 3: running jobs on the Science Center XGrid.

 


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Cloud Computing

Week Topics Reading
Week 9

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  • Section 6 in Tom White's Hadoop, the Definitive Guide, available on Google Books.
Week 10

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Week 11





  • Monitoring a Cluster of Computer as a school of fish (U. Nebraska)





 

Week 12


 

Week 13


 

Selected Solutions for papers, homework, or projects