C595 - Performance-Oriented Distributed Computing

Chandra Krintz and Rich Wolski

http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~ckrintz/papers/fall01_c595.html

Course and Research Overview

Sept. 26: Overview of course and Rich's/Chandra's research.

Dynamic Compilation

Oct. 3: Implementing Jalapeno in Java. B. Alpern, J. Barton, S. Hummel, T. Ngo, J. Shepherd, C. Attanasio, A. Cocchi, D. Lieber, M. Mergen, S. Smith

Presentation: Chandra Krintz

Oct. 10: Fast, Effective Code Generation in a Just-In-Time Compiler. A. Adl-Tabatabai, M. Cierniak, G. Leuh, V. Parikh, and J. Stichnoth.

Presentation: Wahid Chrabakh

Oct. 17: Microsoft .Net and C# (all but one of these white papers are very short)

Presentation: Rajiv Thondanoor-Prat

Oct. 24: Using Annotations to Reduce Dynamic Optimization Time. C. Krintz and B. Calder.

Presentation: Vijay Nair

Grid Computing

Oct. 31: The Network Weather Service: A Distributed Resource Performance Forecasting Service for Metacomputing. R. Wolski, N. Spring, and J. Hayes.

Presentation: Krishna Ramachandran

Nov. 7: Globus: A Metacomputing Infrastructure Toolkit. I. Foster and C. Kesselman.

Presentation: Matthew Allen

Nov. 14: No class - Graduate Screening Exams - Good Luck!

Nov. 21: (Two papers)

The Core Legion Object Model. M. Lewis and A. Grimshaw.
- Presentation: Vladimir Veytser
Numerical Libraries and the Grid. A. Petitet, S. Blackford, J. Dongarra, B. Ellis, G. Fagg, K. Roche, and S. Vadhiyar.
- Presentation: Ying Feng

Market Economies for Distributed Systems

Nov. 28: Difficulties in Simulating the Internet. S. Floyd and V. Paxson.

Presentation: Martin Swany and Todd Bryan

Dec. 5: Analyzing Market-based Resource Allocation Strategies for the Computational Grid. R. Wolski, J. Plank, J. Brevik, and T. Bryan

Presentation: Jie Song