=====Journal of Lessons, SPD year 2010-2011====
====Journal====
  * 07/03/2010 ** Introduction to the course** --- Aim and purpose, program, structure, rules and kind of final tests. --- ** Message Passing Interface, Part 1 ** --- The MPI standard, brief history and purpose. Message Passing programming and portability, functional and performance portability. The library approach of MPI. MPI basic concepts: communicators.
  * 08/03 ** Message Passing Interface, Part 1 continued ** --- MPI basic concepts: communicators, point to point primitives, collective primitives, datatypes; communication semantics in MPI: envelopes, local/global completion, (non)blocking operations, communication modes. Opaque Objects. Primitive datatypes.
  * 11/03 ** MPI, Part 2 ** --- MPI Datatypes: role in MPI, primitive datatypes, derived datatypes. Datatypes and data conversion/packing/unpacking. Basic Send and Receive and their differences: checking communication result, count of received items, asymmetric receives (wildcard TAG and SOURCE) and the status opaque object in receives. Derived datatypes as //local// opaque objects. Typemaps and type signatures of an MPI datatype. Type signatures and send-receive compatibility, different typemaps corresponding to a same type signature. Basic datatype constructors MPI_CONTIGUOUS, MPI_VECTOR.

  * 14/03  __No lesson__ 
  * 15/03  __No lesson__ 

  * 18/03  ** MPI, Part 3 ** --- Array and Struct Datatype Constructors: MPI_HVECTOR, MPI_INDEXED, MPI_HINDEXED, MPI_INDEX_BLOCK, MPI_STRUCT; effect of extent and size in composing datatypes in memory, upper bound and lower bound markers, related auxiliary functions: MPI_GET_ADDRESS, MPI_TYPE_SIZE, MPI_TYPE_GET_EXTENT, MPI_TYPE_CREATE_RESIZED, MPI_TYPE_GET_TRUE_EXTENT. Commit and free operations, MPI_TYPE_DUP. MPI_INIT and MPI_FINALIZE.

  * 21/03  ** MPI, Part 4 ** --- MPI Collective operations (except the ALLTOALLW and reduce/scan operations).
  * 22/03  ** MPI, Part 5 ** --- MPI Collective operations ALLTOALLW and reduce/scan; user-defined reduction operators.  Groups and Communicators: semantics (local versus global), creation and manipulation primitives.  
  * <del>25/03</del> 24/03 ** MPI, Part 6 ** --- Communication modes: Buffered, Ready, Synchronous. Attaching buffers to MPI: semantics and primitives. Incomplete communications: semantics, MPI_REQUEST opaque objects, MPI_GET_STATUS. Semantics of Incomplete Sends with modes, Incomplete Receive. Semantics and use of MPI_TEST and MPI_WAIT primitives in the plain, *SOME, *ANY and *ALL variants. Brief description of MPI_CANCEL and MPI_REQUEST_FREE.

  * 28/03  ** Assist, Part 1 ** --- Recap on Parallel Skeleton Languages, introduction to a line of SPP languages (co-)developed at the C.S. Dept. : P3L, OcamlP3L, SKIE, ASSIST. See Assist Tutorials on the course main page.
  * 29/03  ** MPI lab time ** bring your laptops!
  * 01/04  ** Assist, Part 2 **

  * 04/04  ** Assist, Part 3 **
  * 05/04 __No lesson__
  * 08/04  ** MPI recap ** --- we will have a short survey of MPI to help who started the course late to get on par with the rest of the class.

  * 11/04  ** Assist Part 4 ** 
  * 12/04  ** MPI Lab ** Program with multiple parallel modules in MPI. See document at the end of this web page.
  * 15/04  ** MPI Lab ** Program with multiple parallel modules in MPI. See document at the end of this web page. <del>POLL FOR SETTING UP AN EXTRA LESSON EACH WEEK IN MAY : [[http://www.doodle.com/red98k9t29p49ta6|Doodle poll]]</del> Correction : please disregard previous doodle poll.

  * 29/04  **Coarse grain and Parallel Bridging models** --- Recap of the RAM model; the Parallel RAM (PRAM) model of algorithmic cost. Theoretical vs realistic cost models, and the quest for parallel bridging models. Modeling communication abstracting away from the network structure: QSM and LogP (mention) and the BSP model. Superstep model, cost of a superstep, cost of an algorithm. BSP can be a programming model: mention of BSPlib and NestStep / BlockLib \\ Doodle poll to fill : [[http://www.doodle.com/4qdx3em9y4mbwrsv|New Doodle poll]] -- please report **NO** for unavailable times, **YES** if you are sure that the time slot is free, and **(yes)** if you don't know for sure. 

  * 02/05 __Lesson canceled for illness__
  * 03/05 __Lesson canceled for illness__
  * 06/05 __Lesson canceled for illness__

  * 09/05 ** XtreemOS ** __to be completed, see slides__
  * 10/05 MPI Lab time
  * 12/05 ** Lesson room: Blue Room at S.Anna building, 16-18 hours (see news in the main page) ** BSP practice.
  * 13/05 MPI Lab Time

  * 16/05 ** From Grids to Clouds (and beyond ?) ** Very short survey of Grids and Service oriented architectures. Differences between Grids and Clouds. Basic definitions related to Clouds: Public/Private/Hybrid clouds, Cloudbursting. Introduction to the Contrail Research Project and to Cloud Federations.
  * 17/05 ** Cloud computing: Open Nebula ** 
  * 19/05 ** Cloud computing: Open Nebula **
  * 20/05

  * 23/05 GPU computing
  * 24/05 Discussion on projects
  * 26/05 GPU computing continued
  * 27/05 The Cell Broadband Engine processor (CBE) 

  * 30/05 ** The Intel Thread Building Block Library (TBB) **  Introduction, story of the library, approach: high-level constructs, implementation over thread sets; general concepts; current structure of classes+templates over C++ with a runtime library to support them; constructs (parallel_for, parallel_reduce); use of lambda expressions; partitioners; containers (hash_map, vector, queue); types of mutexes. 



====Slides, Notes and References to papers====

^ Date ^ Slides ^ Student notes ^ Other information |
| 7-8/3/2011 |  {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd-2010-11-intro.pdf|Intro}} {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd010-mpi-lesson1.pdf| MPI part 1}}  |         |Relevant Material from MPI standard:\\ Chapter 1: have a look at it;\\ Chapter 2: sec. 2.3, 2.4, 2.5.1, 2.5.4, 2.5.6, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.7, 2.8;\\ Chapter 3: sec. 3.1, 3.2.3, 3.4; 3.5, (skim through 3.7).   |
| 11-18/3/2011 |   |         |Relevant Material from MPI standard:\\ Chapter 3: sec. 3.2.2 - 3.2.6, 3.3;\\ Chapter 4: sec. 4 up to 4.1.2; 4.1.5 -- 4.1.11  |
| 21-22/3/2011 |   |         |Relevant Material from MPI standard:\\ Chapter 5: sec up to 5.2.1, 5.3 -- 5.8, 5.9, 5.11, 5.12 \\ Chapter 6: up to 6.4 skipping intercommunicators |
| 24/3/2011 |   |         |Relevant Material from MPI standard:\\ Chapter 3: sec 3.4, 3.5, 3.6, 3.7; (skim through 3.8 -- 3.10); 3.11 |
| 28/3-11/4/2011 |  {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:assist-2010.part1.pdf|Slides about ASSIST, part I}}      | |[[magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:ASSISTexamples|Assist coding examples]] |
|  |  {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:assist-v2010.part2.pdf|Slides about ASSIST, part II}}    | | |
|  |   {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:assist-2010.part3.pdf|Slides about ASSIST, part III}}   {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:assist-2010-marcod.part3b.pdf|Slides on ASSIST, part III B}}  | | |
| 29/3/2011 \\ 12/4/2011 \\ 15/4/2011 \\ 10/5/2011  |  {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd10-11_lab_time.pdf|Lab time exercises}}  | | |
| 29/4/2011 |    | | [[http://www.springerlink.com/content/0wpxd6j3l63w/ | "Hierarchical Models and Software Tools for Parallel Programming" - LNCS 2625, cap 15]]\\ [[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=79181|Articolo di Valiant sui Parallel Bridging Models]]\\  [[http://delivery.acm.org/10.1145/250000/242490/a208-cormen.html?key1=242490&key2=2755925031&coll=DL&dl=ACM&ip=146.48.82.79&CFID=20752830&CFTOKEN=55191931|Link al position paper di T.H.Cormen]]\\ [[http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~thc/papers.html|Pagina degli articoli di Cormen]] |
| 9/05/2011 |  {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:xtreemos-confsl_09.pdf|XtreemOS slides (used for the lesson)}}\\ {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:xtreemos-intro.pdf|XtreemOS slides (longer presentation, for reference)}}   |   |See paper [[http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/doi/10.1109/MIC.2008.47|Virtual Organization Support within a Grid-Wide Operating System]]  |
| 12/5/2011 |  |  |  |
| 13/5/2011 |  |  |  |
| 16/5/2011 |  {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd10-11-grids_to_clouds.pdf|Grid and Cloud Introductory Slides}} \\ ** presentation was updated, uploaded on 19/05 **  |  | [[http://www.globus.org/alliance/publications/papers/anatomy.pdf|Foster, Kesselman, Tuecke, The Anatomy of the Grid]]\\ [[http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1851542|Craig Lee, A perspective on scientific cloud computing - HPDC2010]]\\ [[http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ssai/docs/cloud-report-final.pdf|“The Future Of Cloud Computing” – report of EU expert group]] |
| 17/5/2011 \\ 19/5/2011 \\ 20/5/2011 |  {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd10-11-tutorial_v2_open_nebula.pdf|Tutorial about OpenNebula}} \\ {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd-10-11-contrail-overview.pdf|Contrail overview}} \\ {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd-10-11-contrail-federations.pdf|Contrail and Cloud federations}}  |  |  |
| 27/5/2011 |    |   | {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd-10-ieeemicro-cell.pdf|Articolo sul processore Cell BE}} |
| 30/5/2011 |  {{:magistraleinformaticanetworking:spd:spd-10-11-tbb.pdf|Introduction to the Thread Building Blocks}}  |   |   |