CSS 534: Parallel Programming in Grid and Cloud
Spring 2011
MW 545-750pm at UW1-031
Prof. Munehiro Fukuda

Professor:

Munehiro Fukuda <mfukuda@u.washington.edu>, room UW1-331, phone 352-3459, office hours: MW 440-540pm

Course Description:

This course closely examines programming methodology and middleware used for parallel computing in grid and cloud systems, and develops your programming skills high enough to design and build application-specific parallel software with up-to-date grid and cloud programming environments.

Topics covered include parallel-computing platforms, parallel-programming models (such as supported with OpenMP, MPI, and other paradigm-oriented language tools such as MapReduce), programming patterns (such as task and data parallelism), middleware for job and resource management, and fault tolerance.

For each of the topics, we will cover the background and motivation, programming and design theory, and current technology implementation in grid and cloud. In addition, the first five weeks will advance your parallel-programming knowledge and skills through in-class discussions and laboratory hands-on programming exercises, while the last five weeks will strengthen your ability of system analysis through literature surveys and presentations on grid/cloud systems.

Four programming assignments are given: (1) shared-memory-based programming with a tool such as OpenMP, (2) message-passing-based programming with a tool such as MPI, (3) paradigm-oriented programming with MapReduce, and (4) final project to design a grid/cloud middleware system (e.g. a remote job execution, a distributed storage system, or a replica management system).

Prerequisites:

CSS543

Work Load and Grading:

Course Work Percentage Achievements Approximately Corresponding Numeric Grade
Programming 1 15% 90s 3.5 - 4.0
Programming 2 15% 80s 2.5 - 3.4
Programming 3 15% 70s 1.7 - 2.4
Programming 4 20% 60s or below 0.0 - 1.6
Literature Survey 15%
Midterm Exam 10%
Final Exam 10%

Textbooks/References:

The class mainly focuses on the original lecture notes. Therefore, the course has no specific textbook although there are many useful references (marked with recommended) and manuals to assist your programming and literature-survey work. Note that some of the following references start with an abbreviation that is used to indicate chapters referred in our course schedule.
  1. Parallel Programming
  2. Grid and Cloud
  3. OpenMP
  4. MPI
  5. MapReduce

Policies:

Although post-lecture laboratory work can be done in collaboration, all programming assignments 1 through to 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.

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 your 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 Services (DRS) in UW1-175, (email: drs@uwb.edu, TDD: 425-352-5303, and FAX: 425-352-5381). If you have a documented disability on file with the DSS office, please have your DRS counselor contact me and we can discuss accommodations.

Course Goals:

The overall goal of CSS 534, "Parallel Programming in Grid and Cloud" includes:

Programming Assignments:

Four programming assignments are given. Please read assignment.html to understand the environment you use for assignments and the submission/grading procedures.

Laboratory Work:

For the first five weeks, we are planning to have post-lecture laboratory sessions that allow you to get familiar with tools such as OpenMP, MPI, MapReduce, and mobile agents so as to start each programming assignment smoothly. For each laboratory session, we will move from the classroom to the UW1-320 Linux laboratory where you will make a team of two students and work together on each programming exercise. Each student is supposed to independently turn in the source code and execution results in the laboratory or together with the following programming assignment work.

Group Discussions:

The first five weeks will also have post-lecture group discussions where you will form a team of 3 or 4 students, discuss about given topics, and present the discussions in the classroom.

Literature Surveys and Presentations

The last five weeks focus on case studies of grid and cloud systems. There you will choose one system, studying about it through literature survey, and giving a presentation of what you studied. Please refer to surveywork.html for more details.

Topics covered and tentative 534 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 Sessions Readings Assignment
1 Mar 28 System Models
SMP, clusters, hybrid systems, grid, and cloud		   Patterns Ch 2: Background and Jargon of Parallel Computing
CDK4 Ch 2: System Models
MPI Ch 1: Introduction		  
  Mar 30 Share Memory Programming 1
Loop parallelism, multi-processes, multi-threads, and OpenMP		   Patterns Appx A: Intro to OpenMP
OpenMP Ch 1: Introduction
OpenMP Ch 3: Writing a First OpenMP Program
OpenMP Ch 4: OpenMP Languge Features		 Program 1 assigned
2 Apr 4  
Laboratory 1
(OpenMP)		    
  Apr 6 Shared Memory Programming 2
Memory model, DSM, and performance issues		 Discussion 1
(Static/dynamic load balancing)		 Patterns Ch 2: Background and Jargon of Parallel Programming
OpenMP Ch 5: How to Get Good Performance		  
3 Apr 11 Message Passing Programming 1
MPI: Message Passing Interface		   Patterns Appx B: Intro to MPI
MPI Ch 3: Greeting
MPI Ch 4: Numerical Integration
MPI Ch 5: Collective Communicateion		  
  Apr 13 15-minute CSS595/596 explanation given by Dr. Erdly and Mrs. Jewel
Laboratory 2
(MPI)		   Program 1 due
Program 2 assigned
4 Apr 18 Message Passing Programming 2
MPI Performance
Hybrid OpenMP and MPI		 Discussion 2
(OpenMP vs MPI and Hybrid pros/cons)		 MPI Ch 11: Performance
MPI Ch 12: More on Performance		  
  Apr 20 Paradigm-Oriented Programming 1
Task parallelism and MapReduce		 Laboratory 3
(MapReduce)		 Patterns Ch3.2: Task Decomposition
Patterns Ch4.4: Task Parallelism
MapReduce Ch 2: MapReduce Basics
MapReduce Ch 3: MapReduce Algorithm Design		  
5 Apr 25 Paradigm-Oriented Programming 2
MapReduce applications		 Discussion 3
(MapReduce pros/cons and MapReduce-suitable applications)		 MapReduce Ch 4: Inverted Indexing for Text Retrieval
MapReduce Ch 5: Graph Algorithms		  
  Apr 27 Paradigm-Oriented Programming 3
Data parallelism, GlobalArrays, MASS, and thread migration		 Discussion 4
(Paradim programming vs DMS, and their computation granurality)		 Patterns Ch3.3: Data Decomposition
Patterns Ch4.6: Geometric Decomposition
http://www.emsl.pnl.gov/docs/global/		 Program 2 due
Program 3 assigned
6 May 2 Midterm Exam in class      
  May 4 Parallel Programming Patterns
Task, Data, and Mixed parallelism 		Discussion 5
(Application design with task, data, and mixed parallelism)		 Patterns Ch4:The Algorithm Structure Design Space
Patterns Ch5:The Supporting Structures Design Space
Patterns Ch6:The Implementation Mechanisms Desgin Space		  
7 May 9 Job Management
Rsh, intra/inter-cluster and centralized/decentralized scheduling, autonomic computing, and cluster virtualization		   Grid-D Ch 5: Schedulers
Grid-2 Ch 18: Resource and Service Management		  
  May 11 CSS Speakers Series Talk: Dr. Jeffry Howbert, "Ensemble Cloud Army: A Platform for Parallel Processing of Machine Learning Problems in the Amazon Cloud." (Social Time: 5-5:30pm @ UW1-360)

OpenPBS, Condor, Legion, NetSolve, Ninf, Globus, XenoServer, COD, Amazon EC2		 Survey Work Presentation 1 http://www.globus.org/
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/
http://legion.virginia.edu/
http://icl.cs.utk.edu/netsolve/
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xeno/
http://www.cs.duke.edu/nicl/cod
 Program 3 due
Program 4 assigned
8 May 16 File Management
Network, distributed, and parallel file systems		   CDK4 Ch 8: DFS
Grid-D Ch 9: Data Management
Grid-2 Ch 22: Data Access, Integration, and Management
Hadoop Ch 3: Hadoop DFS
Cloud Ch 2:Amazon Cloud Computing		  
  May 18 NFS, AFS, PVFS, MPI/IO, Hadoop, and Amazon-S3 Survey Work Presentation 2 http://www.openafs.org/
http://www.pvfs.org/
http://www.nersc.gov/nusers/resources/software/libs/io/mpiio.php
http://hadoop.apache.org/
http://aws.amazon.com/s3/		  
9 May 23 Fault Tolerance
Two-phase commitment, replication, and check-pointing		   CDK4 Ch 14: Distributed Transaction
CDK4 Ch 15: Replication
Cloud Ch 4: Ready for the Cloud
Cloud Ch 6: Disaster Recovery		  
  May 25 Globus-DUROC, MS Cloud DB, Coda/AFS, Condor-MW, MapREduce/Hadoop, Legion-FTMPI Survey Work Presentation 3 http://www.globus.org/toolkit/docs/2.4/duroc/
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/mw/
http://hadoop.apache.org/
http://legion.virginia.edu/
  
10 May 30 No school (Memorial Day)      
  June 1 Student Final Project Student Presentation    
11 June 6 Final Exam in class     Program 4 due