Instructor: Dr Nik Sultana, Department of Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology
Lecture Time: TR 10:00-11:15 CT Lecture Location: SB 104
TA: Alexander Wolosewicz (awolosewicz@hawk).
Office Hours: Alexander: Tuesday and Thursday at 14:00-15:00, Nik: Tuesdays at 09:00-10:00 Announcements: On Canvas.
Course content: This page and Canvas.
Grading: Assignments (30%), Project (5% for Project design, 10% for Progress Update, and 15% for final submission), Mid-term Exam (20%), Final Exam (20%).
Policies: See the policies page.
Resources:
Lecture Time: TR 10:00-11:15 CT Lecture Location: SB 104
TA: Alexander Wolosewicz (awolosewicz@hawk).
Office Hours: Alexander: Tuesday and Thursday at 14:00-15:00, Nik: Tuesdays at 09:00-10:00 Announcements: On Canvas.
Course content: This page and Canvas.
Grading: Assignments (30%), Project (5% for Project design, 10% for Progress Update, and 15% for final submission), Mid-term Exam (20%), Final Exam (20%).
Policies: See the policies page.
Resources:
- The FABRIC testbed.
- The Pitchfork paper, libcompart (Shohola version), and slides.
- The Hashtray paper and code and patch.
- Review material:
- See the Computer Systems Fundamentals online book — for process management, IPC, multi-threading, synchronization, etc.
- For additional material on multi-threaded programming see slide sets 1,
2,
3;
and for sockets IPC see slide sets 1 and 2.
These are based on Chapter 12 of the CS:APP3e book which you can find in our library. - For additional material on low-level programming see amd64 ABI and Compiler Explorer, and slide sets 1, 2, 3, 4. See also Félix Cloutier's x86 digest for information about specific instructions such as cmpxchg, and Agner Fog's digest showing latencies.
- For OpenMP and MPI, see the Art of HPC books—particularly Volume 2.
