Advanced Multicore Computing Projects

Sources

• http://scholar.google.com/
• http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm
• http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/home

In the case of the project subjects indicated below, read the indicated paper as a starting point. Also read at least one other paper referenced in that paper, and search for more recent or approximately contemporary papers on the topic. Prepare a 25-35 minute presentation on the topic and also write a 4 to 6 page paper summarizing the material.

• Select an individual project from the list below. Only one student may choose each topic, so choose early.
• Also pick a Tuesday or Thursday date to present your talk, starting with Thursday November 19 and ending with Tuesday December 15, excluding Thursday November 25, which is Thanksgiving. Dates will be allocated on a first come first served basis.
• All students are expected to attend all presentations and participate actively in them and will be required to write a brief overview at the end.

Deadlines

• Powerpoint of presentation : due on date of presentation (see presentations)
• Paper : Thursday December 10
  Extension Date: Sunday December 13, 2009

Topics

1. Improving Scalability of OpenMP
   R Noronha, DK Panda, Improving scalability of OpenMP applications on multi-core systems using large page support, Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on …, 2007 http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/publications/conf-papers/2007/mtapp07.pdf
2. Multicore in Cluster Computing
   L. Chai, Q. Gao and D. K. Panda, Understanding the Impact of Multi-Core Architecture in Cluster Computing: A Case Study with Intel Dual-Core System, Int'l Sympsoium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid), Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, May 2007 http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/publications/conf-papers/2007/chai-ccgrid07.pdf
3. Reducing Network Contention
   Matthew Koop, Miao Luo, Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Reducing Network Contention with Mixed Workloads on Modern Multicore Clusters, IEEE Cluster 2009, September 2009. http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/publications/conf-papers/2009/koop-cluster09.pdf
4. Infiniband Performance on Multicore
   S Sur, M Koop, L Chai, DK Panda, Performance analysis and evaluation of Mellanox ConnectX InfiniBand architecture with multi-core platforms, 15th IEEE Int'l Symposium on Hot Interconnects (HotI15), 2007 http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/publications/conf-papers/2007/surs-hoti07.pdf
5. Checkpointing
   • http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/publications/publications_new.html X. Ouyang, K. Gopalakrishnan, T. Gangadharappa D. K. Panda, Fast Checkpointing by Write Aggregation with Dynamic Buffer and Interleaving on Multicore Architecture, Int’l Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC ’09), Dec. 2009.
   • X. Ouyang, K. Gopalakrishnan and D. K. Panda, Accelerating Checkpoint Operation by Node-Level Write Aggregation on Multicore Systems, Int’l Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP ’09), Sept. 2009. http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/publications/conf-papers/2009/ouyang-icpp09.pdf
   • Q. Gao, W. Huang, M. Koop, and D. K. Panda, Group-based Coordinated Checkpointing for MPI: A Case Study on InfiniBand, Int'l Conference on Parallel Processing, XiAn, China, September 2007. http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/publications/conf-papers/2007/gao-icpp07.pdf
6. MPI Collective Communications
   • Amith R. Mamidala, Rahul Kumar, Debraj De, D. K. Panda, "MPI Collectives on Modern Multicore Clusters: Performance Optimizations and Communication Characteristics," Cluster Computing and the Grid, IEEE International Symposium on, pp. 130-137, 2008 Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID), 2008. http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/publications/conf-papers/2008/mamidala-ccgrid08.pdf http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/CCGRID.2008.87
   • R. Kumar, A. Mamidala and D. K. Panda, Scaling Alltoall Collective on Multi-core Systems, Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/publications/conf-papers/2008/kumarra-cac08.pdf
   • K. Kandalla, H. Subramoni, G. Santhanaraman, M. Koop and D. K. Panda, Designing Multi-Leader-Based Allgather Algorithms for Multi-Core Clusters, The 9th Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters (CAC 09), May 2009. ftp://ftp.cse.ohio-state.edu/pub/tech-report/2009/TR01.pdf
7. High Performance Virtualization
   • A Gavrilovska, S Kumar, H Raj, K Schwan, et al. High-performance hypervisor architectures: Virtualization in hpc systems http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/hpcvirt07/papers/paper10.pdf
   • Adit Ranadive, Mukil Kesavan, Ada Gavrilovska, Karsten Schwan Performance Implications of Virtualizing Multicore Cluster Machines http://www.cc.gatech.edu/grads/a/adit262/docs/MulticoreIB-Gatech.pdf
8. Improving Virtual I/O
   • Liao, G., Guo, D., Bhuyan, L., and King, S. R. 2008. Software techniques to improve virtualized I/O performance on multi-core systems. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE Symposium on Architectures For Networking and Communications Systems (San Jose, California, November 06 - 07, 2008). ANCS '08. ACM, New York, NY, 161-170. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1477942.1477971
   • H Raj, I Ganev, K Schwan, J Xenidis, Self-Virtualized I/O: High performance, scalable I/O virtualization in multi-core systems, http://hdl.handle.net/1853/13185
9. OS Issues with Multicore
   R Knauerhase, P Brett, B Hohlt, T Li, S Hahn, Using OS observations to improve performance in multicore systems, IEEE Micro, http://neotextus.net/papers/MICRO08.pdf.
10. High Availability
    Aggarwal, N. Ranganathan, P. Jouppi, N. P. Smith, J. E., Configurable Isolation: Building High Availability Systems with Commodity Multi-Core Processors, COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE NEWS 2007, VOL 35; NUMB 2, pages 470-481 http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~aggarwal/isca_2007.pdf
11. Server Consolidation
    NE Jerger, D Vantrease, MH Lipasti, An evaluation of server consolidation workloads for multi-core designs, IEEE of Symposium on Workload Characterization, 2007 http://www.ece.wisc.edu/~pharm/papers/iiswc.pdf
12. Graphics Acceleration in Virtual Machines
    Lagar-Cavilla, H. A., Tolia, N., Satyanarayanan, M., and de Lara, E. 2007. VMM-independent graphics acceleration. In Proceedings of the 3rd international Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (San Diego, California, USA, June 13 - 15, 2007). VEE '07. ACM, New York, NY, 33-43. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1254810.1254816
13. OpenMP on a Many-Core System
    del Cuvillo, J., Zhu, W., and Gao, G. 2006. Landing openMP on cyclops-64: an efficient mapping of openMP to a many-core system-on-a-chip. In Proceedings of the 3rd Conference on Computing Frontiers (Ischia, Italy, May 03 - 05, 2006). CF '06. ACM, New York, NY, 41-50. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1128022.1128030