CSCE 590 Parallel I/O Systems

Schedule of Presentations

  The final exam study guide is here.

Review questions for the presentations can be found here. LaTex help can be found here.

Project expectations can be found here.

Important dates:

  • Term paper due: Friday, October 4.
  • Project proposal due: Friday, October 11.
  • Project due: Friday, December 6.
  • Final exam period: Saturday, December 14, 12:30-2:30.
Schedule: The schedule will generally follow the table of contents of the text. For example, [1] is paper number 1 from the text.

Some minor rearranging of the papers has been done so that no one has to present two class periods in a row.

M/W/F 8/26-8/30: Amy, [1][2], nice RAID Tutorial from AC and NC, ppt
 
M 9/2: No class, Labor Day!
W 9/4: Maryam [4] ppt
F 9/6: Mujahed [5] ppt
 
M 9/9: Weixia [11] ppt
W 9/11: Amy
F 9/13: Asheq [10] ppt
 
M 9/16: Yi [13] ppt
W 9/18: Prashanth [15] ppt
F 9/20: Subaru [16] ppt
 
M 9/23: Brad [18] ppt
W 9/25: Pawel [22]
F 9/27: Hai [19] ppt
 
M 9/30: Dennis [23] html
W 10/2: Amy Introduction to MPI
F 10/4: Amy     Term paper due., MPI, continued.
 
M 10/7: Mujahed, [Carns, et. al, 2000] H. Carns, W. B. Ligon III, R. B. Ross, and R. Thakur, ``PVFS: A Parallel File System For Linux Clusters'', Proceedings of the 4th Annual Linux Showcase and Conference, Atlanta, GA, October 2000, pp. 317-327. Available here
W 10/9: Weixia [20] ppt
F 10/11: Amy, more MPI and I/O Examples with PVFS.
 
M 10/14: Dennis [24] html     Project proposal due.
W 10/16: Sean [25] pdf
F 10/18: Brad [26] ppt
 
M 10/21: Greg [27] html
W 10/23: Yueyue [28] ppt
F 10/25: LaShall [29] ppt
 
M 10/28: Sean [30] pdf
W 10/30: Robert [31] ppt
F 11/1: Pawel, cluster programming issues
 
M 11/4: Amy
W 11/6: Sri [35] ppt
F 11/8: Greg [32] html
 
M 11/11: Hai [33]
W 11/13: Yi [34] ppt
F 11/15: Yueyue [38] ppt
 
M 11/18: No class, Amy is attending Supercomputing 2002.
W 11/20: Sri [36] ppt
F 11/22: Prashanth [39]
 
M 11/25: LaShall [40]
W 11/27: Amy, hardware tour
F 11/29: No class, Thanksgiving!
 
M 12/2: Asheq "Realizing the performance potential of the Virtual Interface Architecture," by Speight et. al, SC1999, available here.
W 12/4: Maryam [42]
F 12/6: Subaru "Myrinet A Gigabit-per-Second Local-Area Network" by Nanette J. Boden, et. al., 1995. Available here. Project due.
 
M 12/9: Robert [43]
W 12/11: Dead Day!
S 12/14: Final exam period, 12:30-2:30
 
Summary:
Greg [27][32]
LaShall [29][40]
Sean [25][30]
Prashanth [15][39]
Mujahed [5][PVFS]
Asheq [12][VIA]
Robert 31][43]
Brad [18][26]
Hai [19][33]
Yi [13][34]
Maryam [4][42]
Sri [35][36]
Subaru [16][Myrinet]
Dennis [23][24]
Weixia [11][20]
Yueyue [29][38]
Pawel [22]