REQUESTS TO VIEW EXAM SCRIPT BOOKS

If you passed, well done, and congratulations.
Marks have been assigned carefully, including the 49s and 48s and 47s, 69s, 79s, etc. In particular, all students who failed have had their papers checked already as part of the examination process, and there is nothing to be gained by mailing me that "I got 47, and only failed by a few marks, what should I do now to get a pass, can my paper be rexamined please?" Or "I got 74, but my another classmate got 80, can my paper be rexamined please?"
The exam viewing session will be held between 12.00noon and 1:00pm on July 31 (Tuesday), in my office, Room 7.21 of the DMD (Doug McDonell Building) Building. No appointments are necessary (NO EMAIL, please), just come along and join the queue.

Assessments

Assignment 1 (5 marks), Assignment 2 - MPI programming (10 marks), Assignment 3 (team oriented project) -35 marks).

Written Exam: 50 marks. Check out Model Exam Paper

NOTE: (1) Your should score 50% minimum in every assignment to pass! Therefore, attend classes regularly. (2) Marks also correspond to the % of assessment component.

Assignments

Assignment 1 - Math Server
demo schedule
Assignement 1 Results
Assignment 2 - MPI programming - (Deadline: April 23, Monday). Demos will be organised on April 24 and 26 (more on this later).
Please take note that everyone shares the same account on mungerabah. login name and password has been annouced in the class. For any doubts and clarifications on Assignment2, please contact TA. Also, please email your Assignment submission to him directly by email..
demo schedule
Assignement 2 Results

Assignment 3 - Team-based Term Paper and Project Work
I have integrated Term paper + project as one major activity due to their dependencies, but they will be evaluated separately.
Form a team of 4 students (3 is OK) to carry out a combined work on term paper and project.
A template for term paper. Or you can use this Sample Term paper as a reference.
A3 demo Schedule
Assignement 3 Results

Lecture Slides (Note: Updated versions will be put after Each Lecture)

Month/Week	Topic	Literature to Read
	PART A: Foundations - START
Week 1	Information Session	Ready for the next digital revolution? Clusters serve up a challenge Australian grid computing Gathering in Clusters Distributed Computing: Power Grid
Week 1	Socket Programming in Java & Client Server Computing	(R) Sockets in Java (Chapter 13 of Java Book)
Week 2	Multi-Threading in Java	(R) Thread Programming in Java (Chapter 14 of Java Book)
Week 3	Parallel Computing Overview	(R) parintro
	PART B: Cluster Computing - START
Week 3/4	Cluster Computing: Introduction and System Architecture	(R) Mark Baker and Rajkumar Buyya, Cluster Computing at a Glance, High Performance Cluster Computing: Architectures and Systems (Vol. 1), Prentice Hall, NJ, USA, 1999.
Week 5	Single System Image	(R) Rajkumar Buyya, Toni Cortes, and Hai Jin, Single System Image, International Journal of High-Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA), ISSN 1094-3420, Volume 15, No. 2, Pages: 124-135, Sage Science Press, Summer 2001. Bruce Walker, Open Single System Image (openSSI) Linux Cluster Project, Hewlett-Packard.
Week 5	Parallel Pogramming Models and Paradigms	(R) Luis Silva and Rajkumar Buyya, Parallel Programming Paradigms, High Performance Cluster Computing: Programming and Applications (Vol. 2), Prentice Hall, NJ, USA, 1999.
Week 6	MPI Programming and Excuting MPI using PBS	MPI Tutorial: HTML version & local PDF version
	PART C: Grid Computing - START
Week 7 & 8	Introduction and Overview of Grid Computing: Trends, Challenges, Technologies, and Applications	n (R) Rajkumar Buyya and Srikumar Venugopal, A Gentle Introduction to Grid Computing and Technologies, CSI Communications, pages 9-19, Vol.29, No.1, ISSN 0970-647X, Computer Society of India (CSI), Mumbai, India, July 2005. Madhu Chetty and Rajkumar Buyya, Weaving Computational Grids: How Analogous Are They with Electrical Grids?, Computing in Science and Engineering (CiSE), ISSN 1521-9615, Volume 4, Issue 4, Pages: 61-71, IEEE Computer Society Press and American Institute of Physics, USA, July-August 2002. Ian Foster, Carl Kesselman, Steve Tuecke, The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations, International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, 15(3), 2001.
May 7&8	Industry Speaker: Microsoft HPC Server Lecture	Microsoft HPC website
Week 8	Term Paper Topics and Projects	Style Format
Week 9&10	1. Grid Resource Management and Grid Economy 2. Enterprise Grids and the Aneka Middleware 3. Nimrod-G Grid Resource Broker 4. Economic Scheduling Algorithms GridRM.ppt Grid Brokering and Scheduling: with Nimrod-G and Gridbus Brokers Case Studes	(R) Rajkumar Buyya and Srikumar Venugopal, Market Oriented Computing and Global Grids: An Introduction, Market Oriented Grid and Utility Computing, R. Buyya and K. Bubendorfer (eds), ISBN: 978-0470287682, Wiley Press, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, Oct. 2009. (R) Rajkumar Buyya and David Abramson, The Nimrod/G Grid Resource Broker for Economic-based Scheduling, Market Oriented Grid and Utility Computing, R. Buyya and K. Bubendorfer (eds), ISBN: 978-0470287682, Wiley Press, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA, Oct. 2009. Jennifer Schopf, Ten Actions When SuperScheduling, Global Grid Forum Document GFD.04, 2003. Srikumar Venugopal, Rajkumar Buyya and Lyle Winton, A Grid Service Broker for Scheduling e-Science Applications on Global Data Grids, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 18, Issue 6, Pages: 685-699, Wiley Press, New York, USA, May 2006.
Week 10	Cloud Computing and Aneka	(R) Rajkumar Buyya and Karthik Sukumar, Platforms for Building and Deploying Applications for Cloud Computing, CSI Communications, Vol.35, No. 1, Pages: 6-11, ISSN 0970-647X, Computer Society of India (CSI), Mumbai, India, May 2011. Rajkumar Buyya, Chee Shin Yeo, Srikumar Venugopal, James Broberg, and Ivona Brandic, Cloud Computing and Emerging IT Platforms: Vision, Hype, and Reality for Delivering Computing as the 5th Utility, Future Generation Computer Systems, Volume 25, Number 6, Pages: 599-616, ISSN: 0167-739X, Elsevier Science, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2009.
Week 11	Globus Toolkit: Basics, Components, and Services	Globus paper & its website, Globus GIS, Globus Usage
Week 11	Subject Review	Conclusion and Future

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Lecturer: Rajkumar Buyya - Room - 5.31 (ICT Building)

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