DistOS 2014W Lecture 24 - Revision history

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2014-04-24T15:11:35Z

Class Feedback for the Course

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	* Having required questions on the Wiki		* Having required questions on the Wiki
	* Share and highlight any good reading responses with the rest of the class		* Share and highlight any good reading responses with the rest of the class
	* Having essay assignments		* Having essay assignments replace essay format of midterm
	* Incorporate more information about the history of computer science		* Incorporate more information about the history of computer science

2014-04-24T15:09:41Z

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 * Users would see the advances with games primarily
 * More reliance in cloud computing in recent years
 * In general you can model modern programs (Java, C, etc.) as finite state machines which are not parallizable
 * Today we deal with processor limitations by using "experts" to build the system which results in a very specialized solution usually in the cloud
 * Authors have found the problem but not really the process
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 * Massive change in mobile and cloud over the past five years
 * Linux a very general operating system when it started at first - hard coded to 8086 processor specialized to run on the box. Now it runs everywhere. It has all the abstractions dealing with various aspects of hardware, architecture. Multiple layers abstraction because it was useful.

2014-04-24T14:55:15Z

The Landscape of Parallel Computing Research: A View from Berkeley

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	* Users would see the advances with games primarily		* Users would see the advances with games primarily
	* More reliance in cloud computing in recent years		* More reliance in cloud computing in recent years
			* Standard programming languages can be modeled as finite state machines (their execution models are finite state machines)
	* In general you can model modern programs (Java, C, etc.) as finite state machines which are not parallizable		* In general you can model modern programs (Java, C, etc.) as finite state machines which are not parallizable
			* Better to concede defeat in the area of parallelizing finite state machines and focus on parallelizing other areas
	* Today we deal with processor limitations by using "experts" to build the system which results in a very specialized solution usually in the cloud		* Today we deal with processor limitations by using "experts" to build the system which results in a very specialized solution usually in the cloud
	* Authors have found the problem but not really the process		* Authors have found the problem but not really the process

2014-04-19T05:14:06Z

7 Dwarfs

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	==7 Dwarfs==		==7 Dwarfs==
	* Dense Linear Algebra		* Dense Linear Algebra (hard to parallelize)
	** Hard to ~~parallize~~
	* Sparse Linear Algebra		* Sparse Linear Algebra
	* Spectral Methods		* Spectral Methods
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	* Structured Grids		* Structured Grids
	* Unstructured Grids		* Unstructured Grids
	* Monte Carlo		* Monte Carlo (parallelizable)
	** Parallelizable

	==Extended Dwarfs==		==Extended Dwarfs==

2014-04-19T05:13:28Z

7 Dwarfs

2014-04-19T05:12:50Z

Extended Dwarfs

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	* Backtrack/Branch + Bound		* Backtrack/Branch + Bound
	* Construct Graphical Models		* Construct Graphical Models
	* Finite State Machines		* Finite State Machines (hardest to parallelize)

	===Features===		===Features===

2014-04-08T14:49:51Z

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	* In general you can model modern programs (Java, C, etc.) as finite state machines which are not parallizable		* In general you can model modern programs (Java, C, etc.) as finite state machines which are not parallizable
	* Today we deal with processor limitations by using "experts" to build the system which results in a very specialized solution usually in the cloud		* Today we deal with processor limitations by using "experts" to build the system which results in a very specialized solution usually in the cloud
	*		* Authors have found the problem but not really the process

	==7 Dwarfs==		==7 Dwarfs==

2014-04-08T14:42:28Z

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	* Users would see the advances with games primarily		* Users would see the advances with games primarily
	* More reliance in cloud computing in recent years		* More reliance in cloud computing in recent years
			* In general you can model modern programs (Java, C, etc.) as finite state machines which are not parallizable
			* Today we deal with processor limitations by using "experts" to build the system which results in a very specialized solution usually in the cloud
			*

	==7 Dwarfs==		==7 Dwarfs==

2014-04-08T14:39:29Z

Features

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	* Doomsday of the IT industry		* Doomsday of the IT industry
	* Massive change in mobile and cloud over the past five years		* Massive change in mobile and cloud over the past five years
	* Linux a very general operating system when it started at first - hard coded to 8086 processor specialized to run on the box. Now it runs everywhere. It has all the abstractions dealing with various aspects of hardware, architecture.		* Linux a very general operating system when it started at first - hard coded to 8086 processor specialized to run on the box. Now it runs everywhere. It has all the abstractions dealing with various aspects of hardware, architecture. Multiple layers abstraction because it was useful.

2014-04-08T14:39:10Z

Features

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	* Doomsday of the IT industry		* Doomsday of the IT industry
	* Massive change in mobile and cloud over the past five years		* Massive change in mobile and cloud over the past five years
	* Linux a very general operating system when it started at first - hard coded to 8086 processor specialized to run on the box		* Linux a very general operating system when it started at first - hard coded to 8086 processor specialized to run on the box. Now it runs everywhere. It has all the abstractions dealing with various aspects of hardware, architecture.