More information

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More information

• Examination (date 19 december)
• Written exam based on
• - Reader (without paper 12 by Marsland and
  Campbell)
• - Awari paper (available from web site)
• - Lectures
• More information about the course (slides,
  recommended books)
• http//www.cs.vu.nl/bal/college03.html

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Parallel programming research at VU

• Orca parallel language and system
• Parallel game tree search (Multigame, TDS,
  Awari)
• Communication software for high-speed networks
  (LFC)
• Wide-area parallel computing (DAS and DAS-2)
• - Application performance
• - Magpie MPI collective operations
• - Satin divide and conquer parallelism

• Cooperation with Physics
• Parallel applications
• Interactive applications (tiled video wall)
• Computer graphics
• Parallel computing in Java
• Fast Remote Method Invocation
• Object replication, collective communication

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Examples finished M. Sc. thesis projects.
Wide-area applications Performance of parallel
programs on wide-area DAS Projects together with
Physics Parallel rendering for tiled video
walls Parallel movie player for the
ICWall Interaction with robots

• Systems research
• Porting the Orca system to the IBM SP/2
• Fast Java Remote Method Invocation on Myrinet
• Fault tolerance in Java
• Parallel applications
• Ion recombination (Physics)
• Cornea topography (Physics Medicine)
• Ray tracing, DNA sequence comparison,
• Barnes-Hut, Checkers,

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Areas for new projects

• GridLab project (performance modelling and
  visualization)
• Ibis a Java-based grid programming environment
• Parallel Java/RMI applications for Grids
• Visualization, graphics, ICWall
• Applications in Bioinformatics