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Distributed Systems: Paradigms and models

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Day Hours Argument Blackboard Multimedia
Sept. 19 2 Course introduction. Real life examples of parallel and distributed computing. Motivations. (Partial audio video support due to laptop substitution) blackboard (2nd hour only) (1st hour only)
Sept. 20 2 Motivations: different kind of (parallel & distributed) devices available. Technological improvements. PDF
Sept. 21 2 More on clusters: homogeneous and heterogeneous configurations, MTBF, effect of initial program deployement. Measures (latency, service time, speedup, scalability) PDF
Sept. 26 2 Measures (efficiency, Amdahal & Gustafson law). Application parallelization principles. PDF
Sept. 27 2 Application parallelization principles: more applications. Concurrent activity mechanisms (processes and threads) PDF
Sept. 28 2 Mechanisms (and code) to set up threads and processes under Posix/Linux. PDF tarball of the code used.
Oct. 3 2 Techniques to contain interaction overheads. Parallel/distributed models: data parallelism, task graph. PDF
Oct. 4 2 Parallel/distributed models: Work pool, Master/slave, Client/server, Pipeline (producer/consumer). Granularity of parallel computations. Mapping. PDF
Oct. 5 2 Exercise: assignment of Xeon PHI account, instructions for remote access to the machine, assignment of the exercise with creation of n threads and fair termination PDF Instructions to access PHI (partial)
Oct. 10 2 Load balancing: static and dynamic techniques. Data and recursive decomposition, speculative decomposition. PDF
Oct. 11 2 Mechanisms for thread programming: mutex, condition_variable, (async/futures and thread pool (only concepts)). RPC (rpcgen). PDF
Oct. 12 2 Exercises on threads. Exercise text Blackboard
Oct. 17 2 Design patterns: introduction. Finding concurrency: Task and Data decomposition patterns. Group, Ordered tasks patterns. PDF
Oct. 18 2 Design patterns: Finding concurrency: Data sharing and design evaluation patterns. Algorithm structure space: Organize by task, by data decomposition and by flow of data patterns. PDF
Oct. 19 2 Tools and methodology for experiments. Assignment: finish second exercise given last on Oct 12 lesson PDFsources
Oct. 24 2 Design patterns: Supporting structure pattern space PDF
Nov. 7 2 Design patterns: Distributed arrays (+ PGAS). Design patterns general picture and introduction of algorithmic skeletons. Cilk Plus with sample code PDF
Nov. 8 2 Introduction to algorithmic skeletons PDF
Nov. 9 2 Sort (Cilk and C++ Thread versions) PDF
Nov. 14 2 Algorithmic skeletons: RISC and CISC approach, template based implementation techniques, assigment of templates to skeleton trees. Optimization of the parallelism degree. PDF
Nov. 15 1 Optimization of skeleton / template composition as space search problem. Data flow based implementation of skeletons. PDF
Nov. 15 1 Introduction to FastFlow. First example: 3-stage pipeline. PDF
Nov. 16 2 ClassWork1 and FastFlow farm pattern. PDF
Nov. 21 2 Optimizations (overhead reduction) in macro data flow implementations of design pattern/skeleton frameworks PDF
Nov. 22 2 More on the FastFlow farm pattern. Discussed different configurations. Task scheduling, feedback-channels. PDF
Nov. 23 2 Assigned ClassWork3 (see slides of Nov. 22). Proposed and discussed 2 possible implementations.
Nov. 28 2 Vectorization PDF
Nov. 29 2 Data parallel computations using the FastFlow parallel-for pattern. Iterations' scheduling, and load-balancing. Some examples. PDF
Nov. 30 2 Discussion on possible variants of the ClassWork3. Assigned ClassWork4. PDF
Nov. 28 2 Sample code discussion (vectorization). Options to drive the parallelization process in the Intel compiler suite. PDF
Dec. 07 2 Discussion about ClassWork4. Assigned ClassWork5. PDF
12 dic 2 Rewriting rules and optimizations PDF
13 dic 2 More optim rules: map to stream parallel, pipeline stage collapse, farm worker increase/decrease. SPM application development methodology. Presentation of the final project. PDF
14 dic 2 Discussion about ClassWork5. Introduction of the Divide and Conquer parallel pattern in FastFlow. Assigned ClassWork6. PDF
15 dic 1 Discussion on 2016-17 project text PDF
15 dic 1 Discussion on ClassWork6. Introduction to debugging and profiling tools. Dynamic memory allocations: jemalloc, Intel TBB Allocator, Hoard Allocator, FastFlow Allocator. PDF
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