CSS 434: Parallel and Distributed Computing - Spring 2017
CSS 434: Parallel and Distributed Computing
Spring 2017
MW 330-530pm at UW2-340
Prof. Munehiro Fukuda
Professor:
Munehiro Fukuda
<mfukuda@u.washington.edu>,
room UW1-271T, phone 352-3459,
office hours: MW 250-320pm and 540pm-610pm, your slide preview hours: F 200-230pm
Course Description:
This course introduces the concepts and design of distributed
computing systems. Topics covered include message passing, remote
procedure calls, process management, migration, mobile agents,
distributed coordination, distributed shared memory, distributed file
systems, fault tolerance, and grid computing.
The first five weeks focus on the basic mechanism and the Java
programming techniques for message passing, process management,
and migration. We will use Java sockets, MPI: Message Passing
Interface, Java RMI, and UWAgent: a Java-based mobile agent
system the professor and his former CSS students have designed.
The last five weeks discuss advanced topics, where the
instructor will overview each topic; each student will review a
topic-related research paper; and all of us will be involved in
group discussions on those papers.
Four programming assignments are given: (1) A chat server design
with Java sockets, (2) A parallel-computing application
programming with MPI Java, (3) A functional/performance
comaprison between Java RMI and UWAgent, and (4) A distributed
file system implementation using Java RMI. Two lab sessions are
planned for each of the first three assignments to get familiar
with sockets, MPI, RMI, and mobile agents.
Prerequisites:
CSS343.
Work Load and Grading:
| Course Work |
Percentage |
Achievements |
Approximately Corresponding Numeric Grade |
| Program 1 |
9% |
90s |
3.5 - 4.0 |
| Program 2 |
10% |
80s |
2.5 - 3.4 |
| Program 3 |
9% |
70s |
1.5 - 2.4 |
| Program 4 |
12% |
60s |
0.7 - 1.4 |
| Paper Review |
10% |
| Midterm Exam |
20% |
| Final Exam |
20% |
| Discussions |
4% |
| Lab. Work |
6% |
Textbooks:
75% of the lecture covers the following textbook, while the rest
focuses on some advanced topics such as MPI, mobile agents, and some
research-oriented topics. To help your understanding, I recommend
you should buy this textbook.
-
Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design,, 5th Edition,
George Coulouris, Jean Dollimore, Tim Kindberg, and Gordon Blair,
Addison-Wesley Publishers, 2012
References:
Some Programming Textbooks:
The following books and manuals are useful for system, network, and MPI programming.
Policies:
All programming assignments except program 4 are to be done
independently. Any collaboration of work will result in severe
penalty. You may discuss the problem statement and any clarification
with each other, but any actual work to be turned in, must be done
without collaboration.
- Lab work: can be done in a team with your
classmates. However, each student must submit source code and
execution outputs individually.
- Paper review: must be done independently (but not in a
group).
- Program 4: must be done by in team of two students. If
all the other students except you made a team, the professor will
allow you work to work independently.
Any homework is due at the beginning of class on the due date. The
submission may be postponed only in emergencies such as accidents,
sickness, sudden business trips, and family emergencies, in which case
you may turn in yor homework late with a written proof. No make-up
exams will be given except under exceptional circumstances. Barring
emergencies, I must be informed before the exam.
To request academic accommodations due to a disability, please contact
Disability
Resources for Stuents (DRS) in UW1-175, (email: uwbdrs@uwb.edu, TDD: 425-352-5303,
and FAX: 425-352-5114). If you have a documented disability on file
with the DSS office, please have your DSS counselor contact me and we
can discuss accommodations.
Course Goals:
The overall goal of CSS 434, "Parallel and Distributed Computing" includes:
- To learn fundamental concepts that are used in and applicable to a
variety of distributed computing applicaitons,
- To realize fundamental concepts in four programming assignments:
a chat server, a parallel-computing application, a mobile agent, and
a distributed file system, and
- To improve your ability of reviewing, grasping, and comparing the
key idea of research papers
To strengthen your understanding of fundamental concepts, you are
recommended to solve the problems that are given on the final page of
each lecture slide, (while some of them will be solved in class
discussions.). To review research papers, you must visit the
library, search for them, and get prepared for presenting your paper
review with the power point. Finally, you need to work in the Linux
laboratory, (UW1-320) for testing and evaluating the performance of
your distributed program. Therefore, as with most technical courses,
besides ability and motivation, it takes time to learn and master the
subject. Expect to spend an additional 10 to 15 hours a week outside
of class time on the average.
Assignments:
This is a research-flavored course. Each assignment specificaiton only
gives you a topic and a guideline in order to work on the assignment.
The answer and the quality of assignment work just depend on your
enthusiuasm for assignment work. Therefore, there are no specific key
answers.
- Program 1 (pdf, word):
learns how to use Java-based TCP communication through a design
of chat client and server program.
- Program 2 (pdf, word): exercises how to write a parallel-computing
application using MPI Java.
- Program 3 (pdf, word): compares RMI and mobile agenets in terms of
programmability and performance. Click here to download the UWAgent manual.
- Program 4 (pdf, word): designs and implements a very simple
distributed file system.
- Paper review:requires each
student to review a notable research project and to present his/her
understanding in the class.
Please read assignment.html to
understand the environment you use for assignments and the
submission/grading procedures.
Laboratory Work:
We have three laboratory assignments in that we will understand the
usage of and programming with Java sockets, MPI, and mobile
agents. They are intended to mitigate your learning curve of new
programming paradigms and ease your programming work. The grading is
based on your attendance.
- Lab Work 1a: is a
hands-on exercise for Java sockets. (1% of an entire grade)
- Lab Work 1b: is a hands-on
exercise for Java object serialization and deserialization. (1% of an
entire grade)
- Lab Work 2a: is a hands-on
exercise for setting up and running MPI programs. (1% of an entire grade)
- Lab Work 2b: is a hands-on
exercise for MPI programming. (1% of an entire grade)
- Lab Work 3a: is a hands-on
exercise for RMI. (1% of
an entire grade)
- Lab Work 3b: is a hands-on
exercise for distributed computing with mobile agents. (1% of an entire
grade)
Group Discussions:
We are planning to have four group discussions where the class will be
divided into several groups, each discussing about a given topic and
presenting the discussions in the class. Click here for more detials.
Topics covered and tentative 434 spring schedule:
Note that this is an approximate ordering of topics. Chapters will
take about the allotted time and not all sections in all chapters are
covered.
| Week |
Date |
Topics |
Lab and Discussions |
Chapters |
Reading |
Assignment |
| 1 |
Mar 27 |
System Models |
|
2 |
pp37-79 |
|
| |
Mar 29 |
Networking |
|
3
(3.3 - 3.3.4, 3.4.1) |
pp89-98
pp106-111 |
|
| 2 |
Apr 3 |
Interprocess Communication |
Lab Work 1a (Sockets) |
4
(4.1 - 4.3.2) |
pp145-164 |
Program 1 assigned |
| |
Apr 5 |
Group Communication and MPI |
Lab Work 1b (Sockets) |
4.4, 4.6, 15.4 |
pp169-174, pp178-180
pp646-659 |
|
| 3 |
Apr 10 |
|
Lab Work 2a (MPI) |
|
|
|
| |
Apr 12 |
Remote Invocation |
Lab Work 2b (MPI) |
5 |
pp185-228 |
|
| 4 |
Apr 17 |
Operating System Support |
Lab Work 3a (RMI) |
7 |
pp279-334 |
Program 1 due
Program 2 assigned |
| |
Apr 19 |
Process Migration |
Lab Work 3b (Agents) |
7.4.2 and
non-textbook contents |
pp289-291 |
|
| 5 |
Apr 24 |
Time and Global States |
|
14 |
pp595-628
Demo Talk |
Reviewer: Fukuda |
| |
Apr 26 |
|
Paper Review
Group Discussion 1 |
|
OpenMosix, OpenSSI, LinuxPMI
Timewarp
SPEEDES
Distributed snapshots |
Reviewer: Trygg
Reviewer: Muche
Reviewer: Mostrom
Reviewer: Greisel |
| 6 |
May 1 |
Midterm exam in class |
|
2 - 6 |
pp37-98, 106-111, 145-164, 169-174, 178-228, 279-334, and 646-659 |
|
| |
May 3 |
Distributed Shared Memory |
|
6.5 |
pp262-274 |
Program 2 due
Program 3 assigned |
| 7 |
May 8 |
|
Paper Review
Group Discussion 2 |
|
Ivy
Dash
Munin
vNUMA
Linda/JavaSpace
|
Reviewer: Wu
Reviewer: Carpenter
Reviewer: Uy
Reviewer: Kinney
Reviewer: Taylor
|
| |
May 10 |
Distributed File Systems |
|
12
16.2.1-16.2.2 |
pp521-564
pp683-690 |
|
| 8 |
May 15 |
|
Paper Review
Group Discussion 3 |
|
Sun NFS
AFS
Amazon S3
PVFS
Plan9
|
Reviewer: Leontev
Reviewer: Qiu
Reviewer: Greif
Reviewer: Chong
Reviewer: McKennon
|
| |
May 17 |
Distributed Transactions and Replication |
|
17.1-17.3
18 |
pp727-740
pp765-816 |
Program 3 due
Program 4 assigned |
| 9 |
May 22 |
|
Paper Review
Group Discussion 4 |
|
Gossip
Coda
Hadoop
ISIS(JGroup)
XTREEM FS
|
Reviewer: Berg
Reviewer: Simanovich
Reviewer: Singletary
Reviewer: Faraon
Reviewer: Rocheeva
|
| |
May 24 |
Grid Computing
AgentTeamwork at UWB |
|
No corresponding chapters |
|
|
| 10; |
May 29 |
Holiday (No School) |
|
|
|
|
| |
May 31 |
|
Paper Review |
|
NetSolve
Legion
Condor
|
Reviewer: Lin
Reviewer: Porter
Reviewer: Stanton
|
| 11 |
June 5 |
Final exam in class |
|
6.5, 12, 14, 16.2.1-16.2.2, 17.1-17.3, 18 and grid computing |
pp262-274, 521-564, 595-628, 683-690, 727-740, and 765-816 |
|
| |
June 7 |
Program 4 Deadline |
|
|
|
Program 4 due (330pm) |