Sept. 5 - Chapter 2, Computational Grids, of The Grid: Blueprint for
a New Computing Infrastructure
Sept. 10 & 12 - Chapter 11, The Globus Toolkit, of The Grid: Blueprint for
a New Computing Infrastructure
Supplemental - Globus: A Metacomputing Infrastructure Toolkit,
Intl J. Supercomputer Applications, 11(2):115-128, 1997
Sept. 19 - Message Passing
PVM - The PVM Concurrent Computing System: Evolution,
Experiences, and Trends.
MPI - J. Dongarra, S. W. Otto, M. Snir, and D. Walker, A message passing standard for MPP and
workstations, CACM, 39(7),
1996, pp. 84-90.
Sept. 24 - Sensor data processing applications
Satellite data - C. Chang, B. Moon, A. Acharya, C. Shock, A. Sussman and
J. Saltz. Titan: A High Performance Remote-Sensing
Database. In Proceedings of the 1997 International Conference on Data Engineering. April 1997. pages 375-384. IEEE Computer
Society Press.
An extended version of the Titan paper with additional figures and text,
from the journal Parallel Computing, Jan. 1998, is here.
Sept. 26 - More applications
Medical imagery - U. Catalyurek, M. Beynon, C. Chang, T. Kurc, A. Sussman and
J. Saltz. The Virtual
Microscope. To appear in IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in
Biomedicine. 2003.
Oct. 1 - Applications
Petroleum reservoir simulation - Exploration and Visualization of Oil Reservoir Simulation
Data, by R. Martino et. al. Submitted for publication.
Oct. 4 - ADR and DataCutter
T. Kurc,
C. Chang, R. Ferreira, A. Sussman and J. Saltz. Querying Very Large
Multi-dimensional Datasets in ADR. In Proceedings of the 1999 ACM/IEEE SC99
Conference. November 1999. IEEE Computer Society Press.
M. Beynon, T. Kurc, U. Catalyurek, C. Chang, A. Sussman and J. Saltz.
Distributed Processing of Very Large Datasets with
DataCutter. Parallel Computing, 27(11), October 2001.
Oct. 8 - Clustering/Declustering
B. Moon and J. Saltz. Scalability Analysis of Declustering Methods for
Multidimensional Range Queries. IEEE Transactions on
Knowledge and Data Engineering 10(2), 1998.
B. Moon, H. Jagadish, C. Faloutsos and J. Saltz. Analysis of the Clustering Properties of the
Hilbert Space-filling Curve. IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and
Data Engineering 13(1), 2001.
Supplemental reading: B. Moon, A. Acharya and J.
Saltz. Study of Scalable
Declustering Algorithms for Parallel Grid Files. In Proceedings
of the 10th Int. Parallel Processing Symposium. April 1996.
Oct. 10-15 - Indexing
Douglas Comer. The Ubiquitous B-Tree.
ACM Computing Surveys 11(2), 1979.
Antonin Guttman. R-Trees: A Dynamic Index Structure for Spatial Searching.
In Proceedings of SIGMOD'84. May 1984. ACM Press.
N. Beckmann, H. Kriegel, R. Schneider and B. Seeger. The
R*-tree: An Efficient and Robust Access Method for Points and Rectangles.
In Proceedings of SIGMOD'90. May 1990. ACM Press.
Oct. 17 - Legion
A. Grimshaw, A. Ferrari, F. Knabe and M. Humphrey. Wide-Area
Computing: Resource Sharing on a Large Scale. IEEE Computer
32(5), 1999.
B. Walker, M. Walker, M. Humphrey and A. Grimshaw. LegionFS:
A Secure and Scalable File System Supporting Cross-Domain High-Performance
Applications. In Proceedings of SC2001. November
2001. ACM Press.
Oct. 24 - MQO
Henrique Andrade, Tahsin Kurc, Alan Sussman and Joel Saltz.
Scheduling Multiple Data Visualization Query Workloads on a Shared
Memory Machine. In Proceedings of the Fifth Merged IPPS/SPDP (International Parallel Processing Symposium & Symposium
on Parallel and Distributed Processing). April 2002. IEEE Computer Society Press.
Henrique Andrade, Tahsin Kurc, Alan Sussman and Joel Saltz.
Exploiting
Functional Decomposition for Efficient Parallel Processing of Multiple Data Analysis
Queries. Technical Report CS-TR-4404 and UMIACS-TR-2002-84. University of Maryland,
Department of Computer Science and UMIACS. October 2002. Submitted to IPDPS 2003.
Oct. 29-31 - Distributed File Systems
E. Levy and A. Silberschatz. Distributed file
systems: Concepts and examples. ACM Computing Surveys 22(4),
1990. Read the Introduction and Sections 1-6, 9, 11-13.
John Kubiatowicz, David Bindel, Yan Chen, Steven
Czerwinski, Patrick Eaton, Dennis Geels, Ramakrishna Gummadi, Sean Rhea, Hakim Weatherspoon, Westley Weimer, Chris
Wells, and Ben Zhao. OceanStore: An Architecture for Global-Scale Persistent Storage.
In Proceedings of the Ninth international Conference on Architectural Support for
Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2000), November 2000.
ACM Press.
Nov. 5 - Parallel File Systems
P. Corbett and D. Feitelson . The
Vesta Parallel File System. ACM Transactions on Computer Systems
14(3), 1996. You don't have to read Section 5, on Performance.
Rajeev Thakur, William Gropp, and Ewing
Lusk. On Implementing MPI-IO Portably and with High
Performance. In Proceedings of the Sixth Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed
Systems (IOPADS), May 1999.
Nov. 7-12 - Data Grids
W. Allcock, A. Chervenak, I. Foster,
C. Kesselman, C. Salisbury, and S. Tuecke. The
Data Grid: Towards an Architecture for the Distributed Management and Analysis of Large Scientific
Datasets. Journal of Network and Computer Applications. Vol. 23,
2001.
Chaitanya
Baru, Reagan Moore, Arcot Rajasekar, and Michael Wan. The SDSC Storage Resource
Broker. In Proceedings of CASCON'98 Conference, December 1998.
Arcot
Rajasekar, Michael Wan and Reagan Moore. MySRB & SRB - Components of a Data
Grid. In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on High Performance
Distributed Computing (HPDC-11), July 2002. IEEE Computer
Society Press.
Nov. 14 - Grid tools
D. Arnold, H. Casanova and J. Dongarra. Innovation of the NetSolve Grid
Computing System. To appear in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and
Experience, 2002.
Nov. 27 - Grid tools, continued
R. Wolski , N. Spring and J. Hayes. The Network Weather Service: A Distributed Resource
Performance Forecasting Service for Metacomputing. Journal of Future Generation Computing Systems,
Vol. 15, Nos. 5-6, 1999.
H. Casanova and F. Berman. Parameter Sweeps on the Grid with APST, chapter 33
in Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality, 2002.
Dec. 3 - Open Grid Services Architecture
I. Foster,
C. Kesselman, J. M. Nick and S. Tuecke. The Physiology of the
Grid: An Open Grid Services Architecture for Distributed Systems Integration.
2002.
Dec. 10-12 - Streaming databases and online query processing
S. Chandrasekaran, O. Cooper, A.
Deshpande, M.J. Franklin, J.M. Hellerstein, W. Hong, S. Krishnamurthy, S.R. Madden, V. Raman,
F. Reiss, and M.A. Shah. TelegraphCQ: Continuous Dataflow Processing for an
Uncertain World. To appear in 1st CIDR Conf., Jan 2003.
S. Madden and M.J. Franklin.
Fjording the Stream: An Architecture for
Queries over Streaming Sensor Data. Proceedings of ICDE Conference, February, 2002.
V. Raman and J.M. Hellerstein.
Partial Results for Online Query
Processing. Proceeding of SIGMOD 2002, June 2002.