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Instructor: |
Cristiana Amza |
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TA: |
Seyed Ali Jokar |
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Location: |
WB 219 |
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Class Time: |
Thursday 3:00-5:00 PM |
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Project List: |
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Office Hours: |
Fridays 2:00-3:00 PM |
- Sep. 14, 2022: Website Launched.
Please enroll on piazza at: http://piazza.com/utoronto.ca/fall2022/ece1747.
This course is an intermediate graduate course in the area of
parallel programming. In the first part of the course we will briefly
introduce the architecture of parallel systems and the concept of data
dependencies/races. The three most commonly used parallel programming
paradigms (shared memory, distributed memory and data parallel) will then
be examined in detail. An overview of automatic parallelization of
programs and the use of parallel processing in related domains such as
parallel and distributed database transaction processing will also be
given.
In the second part of the course selected research topics will be
examined. This part of the course consists of student-led discussions
of relevant research papers. A research-intensive group project in
an area related to program parallelization is a fundamental part of the
course. The projects can be done individually or in small teams
of two or three people. The project outcome will be presented in a class
session at the end of the semester. A list of suggested research
projects has been posted (project_suggestions.txt). Students are also encouraged to propose their own projects and discuss them with me. Please also read:
Class Goals and Advice from Instructor
There is no required textbook for the class. You should be fine with the lectures and papers posted on this site. However, here are some suggestions for additional reading:
Parallel Programming in C with MPI and OpenMP
by Michael J. Quinn
Threads Primer: A Guide to Multithreaded Programming
by Bil Lewis, Daniel J. Berg
Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems
by Philip A. Bernstein, Vassos Hadzilacos, Nathan Goodman (free on-line edition you can download from http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/ccontrol/ in .pdf)
It would be good for you if you had basic understanding of operating
system principles, basic architecture and some knowledge of network
programming. These are not strict pre-requisites though, most of the necessary material will be covered in class.
Sample project report: Link to Sample Project Report.
Pthread program examples have been posted here: Code Examples.
Please also consult this pthread reference manual
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Sep 15 |
Introduction Slides-part1 Slides-part2 |
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Sep 22 |
Parallel Programming and Optimizations Pthreads OpenMP Slides |
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Sep 29 (1) |
Other Parallel Programming Paradigms MPI |
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Sep 29 (2) |
Parallel Programming and Optimizations Project ideas: TM/Games Brain Pipeline |
1.Locality Aware Dynamic Load Management for Massively Multiplayer Games,
Jin Chen, Baohua Wu, Margaret Delap, Bjorn Knutsson, Honghui Lu and
Cristiana Amza, ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of
Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2005),June 2005 slides
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Paper summaries |
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Oct 6 |
Lock Synchronization and Optimization
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2. Parallelization and Performance of Interactive Multiplayer Game Servers,
Ahmed Abdelkhalek and Angelos Bilas. In Proc. of the 18th International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2004), April 2004
3. Donnybrook: Enabling Large-Scale, High-Speed, Peer-to-peer Games,
Ashwin Bharambe, John R. Douceur, Jacob R. Lorch, Thomas Moscibroda,
Jeffrey Pang, Srinivasan Seshan, and Xinyu Zhuang, SIGCOMM, 2008.
4. Algorithms for scalable synchronization on shared-memory multiprocessors , John M. Mellor-Crummey and Michael L. Scott. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 9 (1):21-65, February 1991.
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Paper summaries |
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Oct 13 |
Software Distributed Shared Memory |
5. Memory Coherence in Shared Virtual Memory Systems, Kai Li, Paul Hudak, 1991 ivy91.pdf
6. Implementation and Performance of Munin. John Carter, John Bennett, and Willy Zwaenepoel
7. TreadMarks: Distributed Shared Memory on Standard Workstations and Operating Systems , P. Keleher, A.L. Cox, S. Dwarkadas and W. Zwaenepoel, OSDI '94.
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Paper summaries |
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Oct 20 |
Programming Paradigms for GPUs: CUDA and OpenCL
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8. OpenMP for Networks of SMPs ,
Y.C. Hu, H. Lu, A.L. Cox, and W. Zwaenepoel, Journal of Parallel and
Distributed Computing, vol. 60 (12), pp. 1512-1530, December 2000
9. A Performance Study of General-Purpose Applications On Graphics Processors Using CUDA ,
Shuai Che, Michael Boyer, Jiayuan Meng, David Tarjan, Jeremy W.
Sheaffer, Kevin Skadron, JPDC, Volume 68, Issue 10 General-Purpose
Processing Using Graphics Processing Units, October 2008.
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From CUDA to OpenCL: Towards a performance-portable solution for multi-platform GPU programming ,
Du Peng, Rick Weber, Piotr Luszczek, Stanimire Tomov, Gregory
Peterson, and Jack Dongarra, Parallel Computing 38, no. 8 (2012):
391-407.
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A massively parallel adaptive fast-multipole method on heterogeneous architectures,
Ilya Lashuk, Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, Harper Langston, Tuan-Anh Nguyen, Rahul Sampath, Aashay Shringarpure, Richard Vuduc, Lexing Ying, Denis Zorin, and George Biros, IEEE Supercomputing 2009.
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Paper summaries |
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Oct 27 |
Multithreading vs Event-Driven model for Server Code |
12. Flash: An Efficient and Portable Web Server , Vivek S. Pai, Peter Druschel, Willy Zwaenepoel, USENIX Annual Technical Conference, 1999.
13. SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services , Presented at the Eighteenth Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP'01), Lake Louise, Canada, October 24, 2001.
14. Adaptive Overload Control for Busy Internet Servers,
Matt Welsh and David Culler. In Proceedings of the 4th USENIX
Conference on Internet Technologies and Systems (USITS'03), March 2003.
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Paper summaries |
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Nov 3 |
Dynamic Content Scheduling and TM |
15. Lazy Asynchronous I/O for Event Driven Servers, Elmeleegy, Anupam Chanda, Alan L. Cox and Willy Zwaenepoel, in Proceedings of the USENIX 2004 Annual Technical Conference.
16. Software Transactional Memory for Dynamic-Sized Data Structures, Maurice Herlihy, Victor Luchangco, Mark Moir, William N. Scherer III, PODC 2003
17. Conflict-aware scheduling for dynamic content applications, Cristiana Amza, Alan Cox and Willy Zwaenepoel,
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Paper summaries |
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Nov 10 |
Reading week; no class |
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Transactional Memory |
18. McRT-STM: A High Performance Software Transactional Memory System for a Multi-Core Runtime, Bratin Saha, Ali-Reza Adl-Tabatabai, Richard L. Hudson, Chi Cao Minh, Benjamin Hertzberg. PPoPP 2006
19. Resilient Distributed Datasets: A Fault-Tolerant Abstraction for In-Memory Cluster Computing,Matei Zaharia, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Tathagata Das, Ankur Dave, Justin Ma, Murphy McCauley, Michael J. Franklin, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica, NSDI 2012.
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Exploiting Distributed Version Consistency in a Transactional Memory Cluster, Kaloian Manassiev, Madalin Mihailescu and Cristiana Amza. PPoPP 2006
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TBA
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Project class presentation |
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TBA |
Final project report due (just the report and any links, not the code, please) | |||