COMP 425/CENG 425 (3) – Distributed Programming

Course Description: Developing multi-tier and peer-to-peer software for large scale and high-performance environments. Dynamic Link Libraries, component-based programming, sockets, remote procedure calls, client-server architectures, transaction monitors, object request brokers, multi-threading and current industry tools.

Prerequisites: 311 and 345

Prerequisites by topic: Socket Programming, TCP-IP Network Layers, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Interfaces

Text: Parallel Programming in C with MPI and Open MP, by: Michael J Quinn

Course Objectives: At the completion of the course students will be able to write programs in a variety of programming languages to take advantage of multiple threads, distributed processing and parallel processing. The students will be able to identify the types to problems that each paradigm addresses and the advantages and disadvantages of each. Specifically, students will know how to:

Coordinators: Steil & Baber

Grades:

10 Homework/Quiz 400

Parallel Research Project 200

2 Exams 200

Final Exam 200

Extra Credit:

You will receive one tenth of one percentage point on your final average for each time you attend the weekly departmental seminar, which is at 7:00 am on Fridays in Sci 100. The first seminar will be in 2-3 weeks. There will be 15-20 seminars, thus there is a total of 1.5% -2% extra credit possible in this manner

Attendance and Tardiness:

Attendance will be taken daily. You are expected to be here. If you feel that your absence should be excused send me an e-mail stating why. I will let you know if the reason given was not acceptable. You are responsible for any assignments given during your absence, check with the instructor or a reliable student to find out what was missed. Any assignment submitted late because of an unexcused absence is still considered late.

If you are late, please do not disrupt the class as you enter.

If you are absent or tardy on a regular basis you will be asked to drop the course.

Late Assignments:

10% per day (max of 50%) will be deducted. Late assignments will be accepted until the first day of the last week of regular class meeting.

Food & Drink:

Please do not bring any food to class. Drinks are allowed in non-computer-lab rooms (be very careful with them).

Integrity Expectations:

Each student is expected to do his/her own work. Copying of others assignments and/or exams is not permitted. It is very easy to copy a programming solution (and also very easy to determine when this has occurred). Those who copy another's work and/or allow their work to be copied will be dropped from the class with a failing grade. The Harding University Code of Conduct will be enforced.

Students with Disabilities: It is the policy for Harding University to accommodate students with disabilities, pursuant to federal and state law. Therefore, any student with a documented disability condition (e.g. physical, learning, psychological, vision, hearing, etc.) who needs to arrange reasonable accommodations, must contact the instructor and TRIO Student Support Services at the beginning of each semester. (If the diagnosis of the disability occurs during the academic year, the student must self-identify with the Disabilities Director as soon as possible in order to get academic accommodations in place for the remainder of the semester.) The TRIO Student Support Services office is located in Room 109 of the Lee Academic Center, telephone, (501) 279-4028.

Tentative Calendar:

Date	Topic	Instructor(s)
08/22 08/24	History of Distributed Computing and Parallel Processing	Steil
	Operating Systems Review (Processes, Threads, Race Conditions & Deadlocks)	Baber
08/29 08/31	Networking Review (TCP/IP Layers (Focus on Network Layer), Sockets)	Baber
	Inter-process Communication (Java and or C# Sockets, Paradigms)	Steil
09/05 09/07	Remote Procedure Calls in C	Steil
	Marshaling Objects in C++	Steil
09/12 09/14	Remote Method Invocation in Java	Steil
	Remote Method Invocation in C#	Steil
09/19 09/21	In Class Exam
	Threading (Concepts, P-threads)	Baber
09/26 09/28	Threading in higher level languages Java, C#	Steil
	Distributed Computer Paradigms / Assign parallel projects	Baber
10/03 10/05	Parallel Architectures	Steil
	Parallel Algorithm Design	Baber
10/10 10/12	Message-Passing Programming	Steil
	MPI	Baber & Steil
10/17 10/19	MPI	Baber & Steil
	OpenMP	Baber & Steil
10/24 10/26	OpenMP
	Turn in Take Home Exam 2
10/31 11/02	Parallel Example 1	Steil
	Parallel Example 2	Baber
11/07 11/09	Parallel Example 3	Steil
	Parallel Example 4	Baber
11/14 11/16	Student Presentations
	Student Presentations
11/21 11/23	Thanksgiving Recess
11/28 11/30	Student Presentations
	Student Presentations
12/05 12/07	Student Presentations
	Exam Review
12/13	Comprehensive Final Wednesday 10:30-12:20