Assesments

Assignment 1 (5 marks), Assignment 2 - MPI programming (10 marks), Assignment 3 (team oriented project) -35 marks).

Written Exam: 50 marks. Check out Model Exam Paper

NOTE: (1) Your should score 50% minimum in every assignment to pass! Therefore, attend classes regularly. (2) Marks also correspond to the % of assessment component.

Assignments

Assignment 1 - Math Server (Deadline: March 19).

Lecture Slides (Note: Updated versions will be put after Each Lecture)

Month/Week	Topic	Literature to Read
	PART A: Foundations - START
Week 1	Information Session	Ready for the next digital revolution? Clusters serve up a challenge Australian grid computing Gathering in Clusters Distributed Computing: Power Grid
Week 1	Socket Programming in Java & Client Server Computing	Sockets in Java
Week 2	Multi-Threading in Java	Threads: Doing Two or More Tasks At Once, Java Tutorial, Sun Microsystems and Java Threads
Week 3	Parallel Computing Overview	parintro
	PART B: Cluster Computing - START
Week 3/4	Cluster Computing: Introduction and System Architecture	Mark Baker and Rajkumar Buyya, Cluster Computing at a Glance, High Performance Cluster Computing: Architectures and Systems (Vol. 1), Prentice Hall, NJ, USA, 1999.
Week 5	Single System Image	Rajkumar Buyya, Toni Cortes, and Hai Jin, Single System Image, International Journal of High-Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA), ISSN 1094-3420, Volume 15, No. 2, Pages: 124-135, Sage Science Press, Summer 2001. Bruce Walker, Open Single System Image (openSSI) Linux Cluster Project, Hewlett-Packard.
Week 5	Parallel Pogramming Models and Paradigms	Luis Silva and Rajkumar Buyya, Parallel Programming Paradigms, High Performance Cluster Computing: Programming and Applications (Vol. 2), Prentice Hall, NJ, USA, 1999.
Week 6	MPI Programming and Excuting MPI using PBS	MPI Tutorial: HTML version & local PDF version
April 20	Industry Speaker: Microsoft HPC Server Lecture	Microsoft HPC website
	PART C: Grid Computing - START
Week 7 & 8	Introduction and Overview of Grid Computing: Trends, Challenges, Technologies, and Applications	n Mark Baker, Rajkumar Buyya, and Domenico Laforenza, Grids and Grid Technologies for Wide-Area Distributed Computing, International Journal of Software: Practice and Experience (SPE), Volume 32, Issue 15, Wiley Press, USA, Nov. 2002. Madhu Chetty and Rajkumar Buyya, Weaving Computational Grids: How Analogous Are They with Electrical Grids?, Computing in Science and Engineering (CiSE), ISSN 1521-9615, Volume 4, Issue 4, Pages: 61-71, IEEE Computer Society Press and American Institute of Physics, USA, July-August 2002. Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Steve Tuecke, The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations, International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 15(3), 2001. Parvin Asadzadeh, Rajkumar Buyya, Chun Ling Kei, Deepa Nayar, and Srikumar Venugopal, Global Grids and Software Toolkits: A Study of Four Grid Middleware Technologies, High Performance Computing: Paradigm and Infrastructure, Laurence Yang and Minyi Guo (editors), ISBN: 0-471-65471-X, Wiley Press, New Jersey, USA, June 2005.
Week 8	Term Paper Topics and Projects	Style Format
May 6	Industry Speaker: Sun Grid Engine Lecture	SGE Website
Week 8 & 9	1. Grid Resource Management and Grid Economy 2. Enterprise Grids and the Aneka Middleware 3. Nimrod-G Grid Resource Broker 4. Economic Scheduling Algorithms GridRM.ppt Grid Brokering and Scheduling: with Nimrod-G and Gridbus Brokers Case Studes	Rajkumar Buyya, David Abramson, and Jonathan Giddy, An Economy Driven Resource Management Architecture for Global Computational Power Grids, The 2000 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA 2000), Las Vegas, USA, June 26-29, 2000. Jennifer Schopf, Ten Actions When SuperScheduling, Global Grid Forum Document GFD.04, 2003. David Abramson, Rajkumar Buyya, and Jonathan Giddy, A Computational Economy for Grid Computing and its Implementation in the Nimrod-G Resource Broker, Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) Journal, Volume 18, Issue 8, Pages: 1061-1074, Elsevier Science, The Netherlands, October 2002. Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya and Lyle Winton, A Grid Service Broker for Scheduling e-Science Applications on Global Data Grids, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 18, Issue 6, Pages: 685-699, Wiley Press, New York, USA, May 2006.
Week 10	Cloud Computing and Aneka	CCGrid 2009/IEEE Medal Award Lecture Slides Rajkumar Buyya, Chee Shin Yeo, Srikumar Venugopal, James Broberg, and Ivona Brandic, Cloud Computing and Emerging IT Platforms: Vision, Hype, and Reality for Delivering Computing as the 5th Utility, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 25, Number 6, Pages: 599-616, ISSN: 0167-739X, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2009. Xingchen Chu, Krishna Nadiminti, Chao Jin, Srikumar Venugopal, and Rajkumar Buyya, Aneka: Next-Generation Enterprise Grid Platform for e-Science and e-Business Applications, Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science 2007, IEEE CS Press, Los Alamitos, CA, USA), Dec. 10-13, 2007, Bangalore, India.
Week 11	Globus Toolkit: Basics, Components, and Services	Globus paper & its website, Globus GIS, Globus Usage
Week 11	Subject Review	Conclusion and Future

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Lecturer: Rajkumar Buyya - Room - 5.31 (ICT Building)
Associate Lecturer:Christian Vecchiola - Room 5.35 (ICT Building)

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