CS 698G: Topics in Parallel Computing

Credits: 3-0-0-9

 

Prerequisites: CS633 or Instructor’s consent

Who can take the course

PhD, Masters, 3^rd and 4^th year UG Students

Course objective

Parallel programming is ubiquitous in today’s multicore era and solves many real-world scientific problems. Massive parallelism entails significant hardware and software challenges. The course is structured so that the participants read and review recent papers in this field. This will be a research paper discussion based course. The topics selected for the paper discussions will be based on advanced topics in the field and from top-tier conferences and journals such as SC, HPDC, TPDS, JPDC, etc. This course will also involve a research-based major project component.

 

Course contents

 

S. No	Broad Title	Topics	No.of Lectures
1	Resource management	Job scheduling, Slurm, hwloc	4
2	Parallel file systems	Lustre, I/O optimizations, I/O parameter selections	4
3	One-sided communications	Remote memory access, windows	4
4	Performance modeling	computation and communication models, logP, logGP models	4
5	Parallel profiling	Profiling and tracing, understanding popular tools such as TAU, HPCToolkit, I/O profiling using Darshan	4
6	Topology-aware mapping	Mapping heuristics, performance improvement with mapping, visual representation of topology	4
7	Scientific simulation and visualization	Simulation, visualization and analysis workflows, large-scale data movement optimizations	4
8	Spark and MPI	Apache Spark, Large-scale data analysis using Spark and MPI	4
9	Grid, Cloud, Fog, Edge	Trends from Grid to Cloud to Fog and Edge	4
10	Project review	Projects based on above topics	4

 

 

Books

 

Textbooks:

1. DE Culler, A Gupta and JP Singh, Parallel Computer Architecture: A Hardware/Software Approach Morgan-Kaufmann, 1998.
2. A Grama, A Gupta, G Karypis, and V Kumar, Introduction to Parallel Computing. 2nd Ed., Addison-Wesley, 2003.
3. William Gropp, Torsten Hoefler, Ewing Lusk, Rajeev Thakur, Using Advanced MPI: Modern Features of the Message-Passing Interface, Cambridge MIT Press, 2014.

References:

4. MJ Quinn, Parallel Computing: Theory and Practice, Tata McGraw Hill, 2002.

Recent papers