COP5570 Concurrent, Parallel, and Distributed Programming (Spring 2024)

Textbook abbreviation: UNP - Unix Network Programming and APUE - Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment.

Syllabus

Lecture 1: Syllabus

Lecture 2: Miscellaneous UNIX/C concepts

• Reading: APUE 7.4, 7.5 7.9, 8.13

Programming assignment No. 1: My Parallel Program Launchpad, Files provided for the assignment including a self-grading sheet. Due date: January 26, 2024 (Friday). y

Lecture 3: Process management

• Reading: APUE 7.6, 8.3, 8.5, 8.6, 8.10; UNP 4.7 (fork and exec functions)

Lecture 4: File operations and pipes

• Reading: APUE 3.2-3.8, 3.10, 3.12, 15.2

Programming assignment 2: mymake , provided files for the project. Due Feburary 9, 11:59pm.

Lecture 5: File meta data and directories

• Reading: APUE 4

Lecture 6: Signal and terminal I/O

• Reading: APUE 10.2-10.5, 10.9-10.14, APUE 11

Lecture 7: Job Control and Process Relationship

• Reading: APUE 9

Midterm to be held on Feb. 26, covering Lecture 1 to Lecture 8, and assignment 1 and assignment 2. You can bring a 8"x11" (A4) cheat sheet to the exam. Some more information about midterm

Lecture 8: Inter-process Communication

• Reading: APUE 14.7-14.9

Lecture 9: Pthread

• Reading: POSIX Threads Programming tutorial from Lawrence Livermore National laboratory

Lecture 10 (skip for now): Pthread (continue)

• Reading: POSIX Threads Programming tutorial from Lawrence Livermore National laboratory

Term project information, due dates: March 4, 18, 27, April 10, 17-24, April 26

Lecture 11: OpenMP

• Reading: http://www.openmp.org

Lecture 12: TCPIP Overview

• Reading: UNP 1 (Introduction) and 2 (The Transport Layer: TCP and UDP)

Lecture 13: Basic TCP Socket API

• Reading: UNP 3 (Sockets Introduction), 4 (Elemtary TCP Sockets), and 11 (Advanced Name and Address Conversions)

Lecture 14: TCP Client and Server implementation

• Reading: UNP 4.8 (Concurrent Servers), 5.18 (Data Format), 6 (I/O Multiplexing), 30 (XTI: TCP Servers)

Programming assignment No. 3: Online tic-tac-toe server, Due March 29. Sample servers are running on linprog6 ports 55555, 56666,57777,58888,59999 (try 'telnet linprog6 55555' from linprog). Self grading sheet. (Note: If you run your server on linprog, please use ports from 50000 to 60000 as instructed by the systems group).

Lecture 15: TCP Client and Server implementation (continue)

• Reading: UNP 26, 30 (XTI: TCP Servers)

Lecture 16: UDP

• Reading: UNP 8 (Elementary UDP Sockets) and 22 (Signal-driven I/O)

continue with thread (Lecture 10) and openmp (Lecture 11) at this time

Lecture 17: Message Passing Interface 1

• Reading: MPI tutorial and MPI Forum

Lecture 18: Message Passing Interface 2

Reading: MPI tutorial and MPI Forum

Extra Programming assignment (7 points): OpenMP and MPI implementations of the Game of Life, Due April 22, 11:59pm. Provided files.

Lecture 19: Socket options

• Reading: UNP 20 (Advanced UDP sockets), 21 (Out-of-Band Data) and UNP 7 (Socket options)

Lecture 20: Broadcast and Multicast and

• Reading: UNP 20 (Advanced UDP sockets), 21 (Out-of-Band Data) and UNP 7 (Socket options)

Lecture 21: Nonblocking and Signal Driven IO and

• Reading: UNP 6.2(I/O models), 16 (ioctl)

Final exam to be held on May 2 (Thursday) 3:00pm-5:00pm in the classroom. You can bring a 8"x11" (A4) cheat sheet to the exam. Some more information about the final exam