1. More information Examination (date: 19 december) Written exam based on: - Reader (without paper 12 by Marsland and Campbell) - Awari paper (available from web site) - Lectures More information about the course (slides, recommended books): http://www.cs.vu.nl/~bal/college03.html

2. Parallel programming research at VU Orca parallel language and system Parallel game tree search (Multigame, TDS, Awari) Communication software for high-speed networks (LFC) Wide-area parallel computing (DAS and DAS-2) - Application performance - Magpie: MPI collective operations - Satin: divide and conquer parallelism Cooperation with Physics – Parallel applications – Interactive applications (tiled video wall) – Computer graphics Parallel computing in Java –Fast Remote Method Invocation –Object replication, collective communication

3. Examples finished M. Sc. thesis projects. Systems research Porting the Orca system to the IBM SP/2 Fast Java Remote Method Invocation on Myrinet Fault tolerance in Java Parallel applications Ion recombination (Physics) Cornea topography (Physics + Medicine) Ray tracing, DNA sequence comparison, Barnes-Hut, Checkers, … Wide-area applications Performance of parallel programs on wide-area DAS Projects together with Physics Parallel rendering for tiled video walls Parallel movie player for the ICWall Interaction with robots

4. Areas for new projects GridLab project (performance modelling and visualization) Ibis: a Java-based grid programming environment – Parallel Java/RMI applications for Grids Visualization, graphics, ICWall Applications in Bioinformatics