Computer ScienceInternet and Web Technology

High Performance Distributed Computing

Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems

Dr.-Ing. Thilo Kielmann

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Computer Science Programmes

- Internet and Web Technology

- High Performance Distributed Computing

- Software Engineering

- Technical Artificial Intelligence

- Multimedia

- Formal Methods and Software Verification

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Internet and Web Technology

– Focus:Technology for the Internet and the Web

– Large-scale computer systems(e.g. Web server architectures)

– Network protocols– Peer-to-peer technology– Security in the Internet

(e.g. worms, honey pots)

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High Performance Distributed Computing

• Focus:Large-scale computing

• Parallel computing: clusters, grids,clouds, mainframes

• High-performance computers and networks• Scientific and commercial applications: e.g., genome

sequencing, designing new medicines, oil-field discovery, stock-market predictions, Google's and Amazon's services

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State-of-the-art equipment

DAS4, the distributed ASCI supercomputer, is operated from the VU

Nodes are situated at Astron,Leiden, Delft, Amsterdam (UvA,VU)

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Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems(top master program)

Some courses:

• Distributed Systems

• Parallel Programming

• Cluster and Grid Computing

• Network Security

• Distributed Algorithms

• Protocol Validation

• Network Programming

• Research Proposal Preparation

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What is a Top Master's ?

• International (students from Europe, USA, India, China)

• Research oriented

• Selective admission

• Practical orientation (many labs, projects)

• Narrowly focused on systems – Operating systems, networks, distributed systems– Multiprocessors, clusters, Internet, grids– Parallel algorithms / languages / systems

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Andrew S. Tanenbaum

• Small, reliable, secure, operating systems• Wide-area distributed systems

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IWT / HPDC / PDCS Master's Projects

- Turtle – secure P2P- Monitoring in Globule - Content placement for video-on-demand

- Visualization / computer graphics projects

- Parallel bioinformatics applications - Energy-aware wireless epidemics - Grid security infrastructures

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mCS-IWT/HPDC versus mPDCS

- IWT and HPDC are part of the framework of mCS- Mandatory choices theory, software eng., math- Literature study- Automatic admission (“doorstroommaster”) for

B.Sc. Informatica- PDCS is a separate “top master” programme- admission based on application

(proving capability for research)

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mPDCS specific courses

- Parallel Programming- Distributed Systems- Computer and Network Security- Cluster and Grid Computing- Advanced Topics in Distributed Systems- Advanced Topics in Computer and Network Security- Research Proposal Writing- PDCS Programming Project- Selected Topics in PDCS

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mCS-IWT specific courses

- Parallel Programming- Distributed Systems- Computer and Network Security- Network Programming

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mCS-HPDC specific courses

- Parallel Programming- Parallel Programming Practical- Distributed Systems- Cluster and Grid Computing- Network Programming

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mCS-HPDC minor in Bioinformatics

- HPDC deals with e-science applications- Bioinformatics is a great application domain for

HPDC- minor inside free-choice package:- Fundamentals of Bioinformatics- Algorithms in Sequence Analysis- Bioinformatics of Large Systems- +1 free choice bioinformatics course