Parallel Processing Architectures and Algorithms

Dr. Shamim Baig

SEMESTER PROJECT
Spring 2011

Project Detail
Team Leader: Mati-ur-rehman

Designing the Supercomputer-Pak

Group leader OSAMA

Members:
Ismail, Thair , Ajmal

Build a Supercomputer-PAK for participation in top 500 computer list. You are given
5 Million$ to build this project. The objective is to get best position in the next coming
list of top 500 computers by optimizing cost/performance ratio within the given
resources.
1- List the major Design issues to build a supercomputer.

2- What are the major performance evolution techniques/tools for a supercomputer?

3- What are the major super computer monitoring techniques/tools?

4- What are the techniques used to handle fault tolerance in super computers

5- Determine the theoretical computational speed of the supercomputer-Pak in Flops.

Define the schemes/implementations for realistic performance evaluation before
submission your system for competition.

6- Suggest upgrades/improvements for futures to rise in the list and recommend

additional funds for upgrade.

NOTE: the tasks mentioned above are tightly coupled with each others. Collaborations
among the group fellows is highly required. Work of one member will affect the others.
So distribute the tasks and work collbartivly
Building a (pilot project) cluster

Group Leader: Mr.ayaaz

Members:
Naila
Sajida

Task of Ayaaz and Naila

Building a (pilot project) cluster of 32 cores for the proof of concepts and implementation
of powerful, and useful applications on a cluster 32 cores system
Tasks of Ayyaz and Naila

1- Initially you will do the cluster building on 16 cores a head node but keep
provision of 32 cores. (all hardware required by cluster building will be provided
to you)

2- Enlist the standard tools used for testing the performance of a cluster.

3- Evaluate the performance of the Pilot cluster using the tools listed above.

4- Identify and implement one interesting, powerful and useful application on pilot
cluster.

Task for sajida:

Study the performance evaluation options/tools for testing the performance of a cluster.
She will submit the report to her group leader. Ayaaz and Naila can use her report to
evaluate the performance of the pilot cluster.
Graphical Processing Unit (GPU)
Group leader: mati-ur-rehman
Nadeem Iqbal
Khuram

1- Identify how GPU can be built on a computer cluster.

2- What are the hardware and software requirements?

3- What are the necessary configurations required to build GPU based application.

4- Build a GPU based application and run on the pilot cluster.

Task of Nadeem Iqbal:

Build an application which will perform brute force attack for

i) Known Plain text only attack
ii) Cipher text only attack
On AES/DES if any 40 bits of the AES/DES key are unknown
NOTE: English text is used in both cases (i) and (ii) and you does not know algorithms
i.e either AES or DES is used.

Tasks of Khuram

He will help Nadeem iqbal and Mati-ur-rehan in searching helpful martial and
applications module/code development with them.

For any query or clarification contact me any time