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COMP 322: Fundamentals of Parallel Programming (Spring

...

2024)

...


Instructor:

Mackale Joyner, DH 2063

Head
TAs:
Jonathan Cai (hw), Paul Jiang (lab 1pm), William Su (lab 4pm)
Alison Qiu, Haotian Dang, Andrew Ondara, Stefan Boskovic, Huzaifa Ali, Raahim Absar

Piazza site:

https://piazza.com/rice/spring2024

Admin Assistant:Annepha Hurlock, annepha@rice.edu, DH 3122, 713-348-5186Undergraduate TAs:

Tory Songyang, Zishi Wang

Piazza site:

https://piazza.com/configure-classes/spring2020

/comp322 (Piazza is the preferred medium for all course communications

, but you can also send email to comp322-staff at rice dot edu if needed

)

Cross-listing:

ELEC 323

Lecture location:

Sewell Hall 301

TBD

Lecture times:

MWF 1:00pm - 1:50pm

Lab locations:

Mon (TBD)

Tue (TBD)

Sewell Hall 301

Lab times:

Thursday, 1

Mon  3:00pm -

1

3:50pm

, 4

Tue   4:00pm - 4:

50pm

50pm 

Course Syllabus

A summary PDF file containing the course syllabus for the course can be found here.  Much of the syllabus information is also included below in this course web site, along with some additional details that are not included in the syllabus.

...

The desired learning outcomes fall into three major areas (course modules):

1) Parallelism: functional programming, Java streams, creation and coordination of parallelism (async, finish), abstract performance metrics (work, critical paths), Amdahl's Law, weak vs. strong scaling, data races and determinism, data race avoidance (immutability, futures, accumulators, dataflow), deadlock avoidance, abstract vs. real performance (granularity, scalability), collective & point-to-point synchronization (phasers, barriers), parallel algorithms, systolic algorithms.

...

3) Locality & Distribution: memory hierarchies, locality, cache affinity, data movement, message-passing (MPI), communication overheads (bandwidth, latency), MapReduce, accelerators, GPGPUs, CUDA, OpenCL.

To achieve these learning outcomes, each class period will include time for both instructor lectures and in-class exercises based on assigned reading and videos.  The lab exercises will be used to help students gain hands-on programming experience with the concepts introduced in the lectures.

To ensure that students gain a strong knowledge of parallel programming foundations, the classes and homeworks homework will place equal emphasis on both theory and practice. The programming component of the course will mostly use the  Habanero-Java Library (HJ-lib)  pedagogic extension to the Java language developed in the  Habanero Extreme Scale Software Research project  at Rice University.  The course will also introduce you to real-world parallel programming models including Java Concurrency, MapReduce, MPI, OpenCL and CUDA. An important goal is that, at the end of COMP 322, you should feel comfortable programming in any parallel language for which you are familiar with the underlying sequential language (Java or C). Any parallel programming primitives that you encounter in the future should be easily recognizable based on the fundamentals studied in COMP 322.

...

There are no required textbooks for the class. Instead, lecture handouts are provided for each module as follows.  You are expected to read the relevant sections in each lecture handout before coming to the lecture.  We will also provide a number of references in the slides and handouts.The links to the latest versions of the lecture handouts are included below:

  • Module 1 handout (Parallelism)
  • Module 2 handout (Concurrency)There is no lecture handout for Module 3 (Distribution and Locality).  The instructors will refer you to optional resources to supplement the lecture slides and videos.

There are also a few optional textbooks that we will draw from during the course.  You are encouraged to get copies of any or all of these books.  They will serve as useful references both during and after this course:

Lecture Schedule

 

Finally, here are some additional resources that may be helpful for you:

Lecture Schedule

 



Week

Day

Date (2024

Week

Day

Date (2020

)

Lecture

Assigned Reading

Assigned Videos (see Canvas site for video links)

In-class Worksheets

Slides

Work Assigned

Work Due

 
Worksheet Solutions

1

Mon

Jan

13Topic 1.1 Lecture, Topic 1.1 Demonstration

08

Lecture 1:

Task Creation and Termination (Async, Finish)Module 1: Section 1.1

Introduction



worksheet1lec1-
slides

 

slides  

 

 

 



WS1-solution


Wed

Jan

15

10

Lecture 2: 

Computation Graphs, Ideal ParallelismModule 1: Sections 1.2, 1.3Topic 1.2 Lecture, Topic 1.2 Demonstration, Topic 1.3 Lecture, Topic 1.3 Demonstration

Functional Programming



worksheet2
lec2 
lec02-slides

Homework 1

 

 



WS2-solution

FriJan
17
12Lecture 3:
Abstract Performance Metrics, Multiprocessor SchedulingModule 1: Section 1.4Topic 1.4 Lecture, Topic 1.4 Demonstration
Higher order functions

worksheet3 
worksheet3
lec3-
slides 
slides   
 



WS3-solution

2

Mon

Jan

20

15

No

lecture, School Holiday (Martin Luther King, Jr. Day)

class: MLK










Wed

Jan 17

Lecture 4: Lazy Computation



worksheet4lec4-slides

WS4-solution


Fri

Jan 19

Lecture 5: Java Streams



worksheet5lec5-slidesHomework 1
WS5-solution
3Mon
       

 

Wed
Jan 22

Lecture

4: Parallel Speedup and Amdahl's Law

6: Map Reduce with Java Streams

Module 1: Section
1
2.
5
4Topic
1.5 Lecture
2.4 Lecture, Topic
1
2.
5
4 Demonstration  
worksheet4
worksheet6
lec4
lec6-slides
Quiz for Unit 1  



WS6-solution


Wed

 

Fri

Jan 24

Lecture

5: Future Tasks, Functional Parallelism ("Back to the Future")

7: Futures

Module 1: Section 2.1Topic 2.1 Lecture , Topic 2.1 Demonstration
worksheet5
worksheet7
lec5
lec7-slides
   



WS7-solution


Fri

3

Mon

Jan

27

26

Lecture

6

8Async, Finish

Accumulators

, Computation Graphs

Module 1:
Section 2.3
Sections 1.1, 1.2Topic
2
1.
3 Lecture
1 Lecture, Topic 1.1 Demonstration, Topic 1.2 Lecture, Topic 1.
3
2 Demonstration
worksheet6
worksheet8
lec6
lec8-slides
  Wed


WS8-solution
  

4

Mon


Jan 29 Lecture
7: Map Reduce
9: Ideal Parallelism, Data-Driven Tasks 

Module

Module

1: Section

2

1.3, 4.5

Topic 2.4


Topic 1.3 Lecture, Topic 1.3 Demonstration, Topic 4.5 Lecture, Topic

2

4.

4

5 Demonstration

  

worksheet7

worksheet9

lec7
lec9-
slides

Homework 2

Homework 1 

 

slides 

WS9-solution

Wed
Fri
Jan 31Lecture
8: Data Races, Functional & Structural Determinism
10: Event-based programming model




worksheet10lec10-slides
Homework 1WS10-solution

FriFeb 02Lecture 11: GUI programming, Scheduling/executing computation graphs

Module 1: Section
2.5, 2.6
1.4Topic
2
1.
5
4 Lecture , Topic
2.5 Demonstration, Topic 2.6 Lecture, Topic 2.6 Demonstration   
1.4 Demonstrationworksheet11lec11
worksheet8lec8
-slides

 

Quiz for Unit 1 
Homework 2
WS11-solution
5
4

Mon

Feb

03

05

Lecture
9: Java’s Fork/Join Library
12: Abstract performance metrics, Parallel Speedup, Amdahl's Law Module 1:
Sections 2.7, 2.8
Section 1.5Topic
2
1.
7
5 Lecture , Topic
2
1.
8 Lecture
5 Demonstration
worksheet9
worksheet12
lec9 
lec12-slides
Quiz for Unit 2  


WS12-solution


Wed

Feb

05

07

Lecture

10: Loop-Level Parallelism, Parallel Matrix Multiplication

13: Accumulation and reduction. Finish accumulators

Module 1:
Sections 3
Section 2.
1,
3
.2

Topic 2.3

.1

Lecture

, Topic 3.1 Demonstration ,

  Topic

3

2.

2 Lecture,  Topic

3

.2

Demonstration

worksheet10
worksheet13
lec10
lec13-slides 
 

WS13-solution
 


Fri

Feb 09

No class: Spring Recess










6

Mon

Feb 12

Lecture 14: Data Races, Functional & Structural Determinism

 

Fri

Feb 07

Lecture 11: Iteration Grouping (Chunking), Barrier Synchronization

Module 1: Sections
3
2.
3
5,
3
2.
4
6Topic
3
2.
3
5 Lecture ,  Topic
3
2.
3
5 Demonstration,  Topic
3
2.
4
6 Lecture
 
,  Topic
3
2.
4
6 Demonstration
worksheet11
worksheet14
lec11
lec14-slides
   

5



WS14-solution


Wed

Mon

Feb
10
14

Lecture

12:  Parallelism in Java Streams, Parallel Prefix Sums

15: Limitations of Functional parallelism.
Abstract vs. real performance. Cutoff Strategy



worksheet15lec15-slides



Homework 2WS15-solution

FriFeb 16

Lecture 16: Recursive Task Parallelism  



worksheet16 lec16-slidesHomework 3
WS16-solution

7

Mon

Feb 19

Lecture 17: Midterm Review




lec17-slides




Wed

Feb 21

Lecture 18: Midterm Review




lec18-slides




Fri

Feb 23 

Lecture 19: Data-Parallel Programming model. Loop-Level Parallelism, Loop Chunking

Module 1: Sections 3.1, 3.2, 3.3Topic 3.1 Lecture, Topic 3.1 Demonstration , Topic 3.2 Lecture,  Topic 3.2 Demonstration, Topic 3.3 Lecture,  Topic 3.3 Demonstrationworksheet19lec19-slides

WS19-solution

8

Mon

Feb 26

Lecture 20: Barrier Synchronization with Phasers

Module 1: Sections 3.4 Topic 3.4 Lecture, Topic 3.4 Demonstrationworksheet20lec20-slides      

WS20-solution


Wed

Feb 28

Lecture 21:Stencil computation.

Module 1: Section 3.7Topic Topic 3.7 Java Streams, Topic 3.7 Java Streams Demonstrationworksheet12lec12-slides Quiz for Unit 2  

Wed

Feb 12

Lecture 13: Iterative Averaging Revisited, SPMD pattern

Module 1: Sections 3.5, 3.6Topic 3.5 Lecture , Topic 3.5 Demonstration , Topic 3.6 Lecture,   Topic 3.6 Demonstrationworksheet13lec13-slides

Homework 3 (includes 2 intermediate checkpoints)

Quiz for Unit 3

Homework 2 

-

Fri

Feb 14

Spring Recess

       

6

Mon

Feb 17

Lecture 14: Data-Driven Tasks 

Module 1: Sections 4.5Topic 4.5 Lecture   Topic 4.5 Demonstrationworksheet14 lec14-slides   

 

Wed

Feb 19

Lecture 15:  

Point-to-point Synchronization with Phasers

Module 1:

Section

Sections 4.2, 4.3

Topic 4.2 Lecture,
 
Topic 4.2 Demonstration, Topic 4.3 Lecture,
 Topic
Topic 4.3 Demonstration
worksheet15
worksheet21
lec15 
lec21-slides
   


WS21-solution


Fri

Feb 21

Mar 01

Lecture

16: Pipeline Parallelism, Signal Statement,

22: Fuzzy Barriers with Phasers

Module 1:
Sections 4.4, 4
Section 4.1
Topic
 Topic 4.
4 Lecture ,   Topic 4.4 Demonstration, Topic 4.1 Lecture,  Topic
1 Lecture, Topic 4.1 Demonstration
worksheet16
worksheet22
lec16
lec22-slides
Quiz for Unit 4Quiz for Unit 3 

7

Mon

Feb 24

Lecture 17: Midterm Review

   lec17-slides   

 

Wed

Feb 26

Lecture 18: Abstract vs. Real Performance

  worksheet18 lec18-slides    

 

Fri

Feb 28

Lecture 19: Critical Sections, Isolated construct (start of Module 2)


WS22-solution

9

Mon

Mar 04

Lecture 23:  Fork/Join programming model. OS Threads. Scheduler Pattern


Topic 2.7 Lecture, Topic 2.7 Demonstration, Topic 2.8 Lecture, Topic 2.8 Demonstration

worksheet23 lec23-slides

Homework 3 (CP 1)

WS23-solution


Wed

Mar 06

Lecture 24: Confinement & Monitor Pattern. Critical sections
Global lock

Module 2: Sections 5.1, 5.2
,
Topic 5.
6, Topic 5.
1 Lecture, Topic 5.1 Demonstration, Topic 5.2 Lecture, Topic 5.2 Demonstration, Topic 5.6 Lecture, Topic 5.6 Demonstration
worksheet19
worksheet24
lec19
lec24-slides
 Homework 3, Checkpoint-1 

8

Mon

Mar 02



WS24-solution


Fri

Mar 08

 Lecture 25:  Atomic variables, Synchronized statements
Lecture 20: Parallel Spanning Tree algorithm, Atomic variables
Module 2: Sections
5.3,
5.4,
5Topic 5.3 Demonstration,
7.
5
2
Topic 5.4 Lecture, Topic 5.4 Demonstration, Topic
5.5 Lecture, Topic 5.5 Demonstration
7.2 Lecture worksheet25lec25-slides


WS25-solution

Mon

Mar 11

No class: Spring Break

worksheet20lec20-slides 

 

 


 






WedMar
04
13

Lecture 21: Actors

Module 2: 6.1, 6.2

Topic 6.1 Lecture ,   Topic 6.1 Demonstration ,   Topic 6.2 Lecture, Topic 6.2 Demonstration

worksheet21 lec21-slides  

 

 
No class: Spring Break








Fri

Mar 15

No class: Spring Break









10

Mon

Mar 18

Lecture 26: Parallel Spanning Tree, other graph algorithms



worksheet26lec26-slides

WS26-solution


Wed

Mar 20

Lecture 27: Java Threads and Locks

Module 2: Sections 7.1, 7.3Topic 7.1 Lecture, Topic 7.3 Lectureworksheet27lec27-slides


Homework 3 (CP 2)WS27-solution


Fri

Mar 22

Lecture 28: Java Locks - Soundness and progress guarantees

Module 2: Section 7.5Topic 7.5 Lectureworksheet28lec28-slides




WS28-solution

11

Mon

Mar 25

Lecture 29:  Dining Philosophers Problem

Module 2: Section 7.6Topic 7.6 Lectureworksheet29lec29-slides



WS29-solution


Wed

Mar 27

Lecture 30: Read-Write Locks, Linearizability of Concurrent Objects

Module 2: Sections 7.3, 7.4Topic 7.3 Lecture, Topic 7.4 Lectureworksheet30lec30-slides



WS30-solution


Fri

Mar 29

Lecture 31: Message-Passing programming model with Actors

Module 2: Sections 6.1, 6.2Topic 6.1 Lecture, Topic 6.1 Demonstration,   Topic 6.2 Lecture, Topic 6.2 Demonstrationworksheet31lec31-slides


WS31-solution

12

Mon

Apr 01

Lecture 32: Active Object Pattern. Combining Actors with task parallelismModule 2: Sections 6.3, 6.4Topic 6.3 Lecture, Topic 6.3 Demonstration,   Topic 6.4 Lecture, Topic 6.4 Demonstrationworksheet32lec32-slides

Homework 4

Homework 3 (All)

WS32-solution


Wed

Apr 03

Lecture 33: Task Affinity and locality. Memory hierarchy



worksheet33lec33-slides



WS33-solution


Fri

Apr 05

Lecture 34: Eureka-style Speculative Task Parallelism

 
worksheet34lec34-slides


WS34-solution

13

Mon

Apr 08

No class: Solar Eclipse









WedApr 10Lecture 35: Scan Pattern. Parallel Prefix Sum


worksheet35lec35-slides
Homework 4 (CP 1)WS35-solution

FriApr 12Lecture 36: Parallel Prefix Sum applications

worksheet36lec36-slides

WS36-solution
14MonApr 15Lecture 37: Overview of other models and frameworks


lec37-slides




WedApr 17Lecture 38: Course Review (Lectures 19-34)
 
lec38-slides
Homework 4 (All)


FriApr 19Lecture 39: Course Review (Lectures 19-34)


lec39-slides

 

Fri

Mar 06

Lecture 22: Actors (contd)

Module 2: 6.3, 6.4, 6.5Topic 6.3 Lecture, Topic 6.3 Demonstration, Topic 6.4 Lecture , Topic 6.4 Demonstration,   Topic 6.5 Lecture, Topic 6.5 Demonstration worksheet22 lec22-slides 

Quiz for Unit 4

 

9

Mon

Mar 09

Lecture 23: TBD

Module 2: 6.6Topic 6.6 Lecture, Topic 6.6 Demonstrationworksheet23 lec23-slides

 

 

 

 

 

Wed

Mar 11

Lecture 24:  TBD

Module 2: TBDTopic TBD  

 

Homework 3, Checkpoint-2

 

 

Fri

Mar 13

No class

    Quiz for Unit 6  -

M-F

Mar 16 - Mar 20

Spring Break

       

10

Mon

Mar 23

Lecture 25: Java Threads, Java synchronized statement (contd), wait/notify

Module 2: 7.1, 7.2Topic 7.1 Lecture, Topic 7.2 Lectureworksheet25lec25-slides 

 

 

  

Wed

Mar 25

Lecture 26: Java Locks, Linearizability of Concurrent Objects

Module 2: 7.3, 7.4Topic 7.3 Lecture, Topic 7.4 Lectureworksheet26 lec26-slides

Homework 4

(includes one intermediate checkpoint)

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Fri

Mar 27

Lecture 27: Safety and Liveness Properties, Java Synchronizers, Dining Philosophers Problem

Module 2: 7.5, 7.6Topic 7.5 Lecture, Topic 7.6 Lectureworksheet27lec27-slides Quiz for Unit 7

Homework 3 (all)

Quiz for Unit 6

 

11

Mon

Mar 30

Lecture 28: Message Passing Interface (MPI), (start of Module 3)

 Topic 8.1 Lecture, Topic 8.2 Lecture, Topic 8.3 Lecture,worksheet28

lec28-slides

   

 

Wed

Apr 01

Lecture 29:  Message Passing Interface (MPI, contd)

 Topic 8.4 Lecture, Topic 8.5 Lecture, Topic 8 Demonstration Videoworksheet29 lec29-slides

Quiz for Unit 8

  

 

Fri

Apr 03

Lecture 30: Distributed Map-Reduce using Hadoop and Spark frameworks

 Topic 9.1 Lecture (optional, overlaps with video 2.4), Topic 9.2 Lecture, Topic 9.3 Lectureworksheet30 lec30-slides  Quiz for Unit 7 

12

Mon

Apr 06

Lecture 31: TF-IDF and PageRank Algorithms with Map-Reduce

 Topic 9.4 Lecture, Topic 9.5 Lecture, Unit 9 Demonstrationworksheet31 lec31-slides Quiz for Unit 9

 

 

 

Wed

Apr 08

TBD

    

 

Homework 4 Checkpoint-1

 

 

Fri

Apr 10

Lecture 32: Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) programming models

 Lectures 10.1 - 10.5, Unit 10 Demonstration (all videos optional – unit 10 has no quiz)worksheet32lec32-slides

 

Quiz for Unit 8

 

13

Mon

Apr 13

Lecture 33: Combining Distribution and Multithreading

  worksheet33lec33-slides  

 

Wed

Apr 15

Lecture 34: Task Affinity with Places

  worksheet34lec34-slides

Homework 5

Homework 4 (all)

 

 

Fri

Apr 17

Lecture 35: Eureka-style Speculative Task Parallelism

  worksheet35

lec35-slides

 

Quiz for Unit 9 

14

Mon

Apr 20

Lecture 36: Algorithms based on Parallel Prefix (Scan) operations

  worksheet36lec36-slides 

 

 

 

Wed

Apr 22

Lecture 37: Algorithms based on Parallel Prefix (Scan) operations, contd.  worksheet37lec37-slides

 

 

 

 

Fri

Apr 24

Lecture 38: Course Review (Lectures 20-38)

   lec38-slides 

Homework 5

 -                     





Lab Schedule

Lab #

Date (

2020

2023)

Topic

Handouts

Examples

0 Infrastructure Setuplab0-handout-

1

Jan

16

Async-Finish Parallel Programming with abstract metrics

08

Infrastructure setup

lab0

lab1

-handout

lab1-handout


-
 
Jan 15No lab this week
  
(MLK)

2Jan
30
22
Futures
Functional Programminglab2-handout

-

3

Feb 06

Cutoff Strategy and Real World Performance

Jan 29

Futures

lab3-handout
-

4

-

 

No lab this week - Spring Recess -4

Feb 20

DDFs

lab4-handout -

5

Feb 27
Feb 05Data-Driven Taskslab4-handout

5

Feb 12

Async / Finish

lab5-handout
-Feb 19No lab this week (
midterm exam)

 

  
Midterm Exam)

6
Mar 05

Feb 26

Loop

-level Parallelism

Parallelism 

lab5
lab6-
handout 
handoutimage kernels
lab5-intro
7Mar
12
04Recursive Task Cutoff Strategylab7

Isolated Statement and Atomic Variables

lab6 
-handout
-

-

Mar 11No lab this week
-
(Spring Break
  8Mar 26Actorslab7-handout
)

-
9Apr 02
Mar 18Java Threads
, Java Locks
lab8-handout
-

8

10

Apr 09

Message Passing Interface (MPI)
Mar 25Concurrent Listslab9-handout
-

9
 
Apr 01

 

Apache Spark

 -

 

 

Eureka-style Speculative Task Parallelism

    

Java's ForkJoin Framework

 
Actorslab10-handout
10

Apr 08

No lab this week (Solar Eclipse)



-

Apr 15

No lab this week

 



Grading, Honor Code Policy, Processes and Procedures

Grading will be based on your performance on five homeworks four homework assignments (weighted 40% in all), two exams (weighted 40% in all), weekly lab exercises (weighted 10% in all), online quizzes (weighted 5% in all), and in-class worksheets (weighted 5% in all).

The purpose of the homeworks homework is to give you practice in solving problems that deepen your understanding of concepts introduced in class. Homeworks are Homework is due on the dates and times specified in the course schedule.  No late submissions (other than those using slip days mentioned below) will be accepted.

The slip day policy for COMP 322 is similar to that of COMP 321. All students will be given 3 slip days to use throughout the semester. When you use a slip day, you will receive up to 24 additional hours to complete the assignment. You may use these slip days in any way you see fit (3 days on one assignment, 1 day each on 3 assignments, etc.). Slip days will be automatically tracked through the Autograder, more details are available later in this document and in the Autograder user guideusing the README.md file. Other than slip days, no extensions will be given unless there are exceptional circumstances (such as severe sickness, not because you have too much other work). Such extensions must be requested and approved by the instructor (via e-mail, phone, or in person) before the due date for the assignment. Last minute requests are likely to be denied..

Labs must be submitted by the following Monday at 3pm.  Labs Labs must be checked off by a TA by the following Monday at 11:59pm.

Worksheets should be completed in class for full credit.  For partial credit, a worksheet can be turned in before the start of the class following the one in which the worksheet for distributed, by the deadline listed in Canvas so that solutions to the worksheets can be discussed in the next class.

You will be expected to follow the Honor Code in all homeworks and homework and exams.  The following policies will apply to different work products in the course:

  • In-class worksheets: You are free to discuss all aspects of in-class worksheets with your other classmates, the teaching assistants and the professor during the class. You can work in a group and write down the solution that you obtained as a group. If you work on the worksheet outside of class (e.g., due to an absence), then it must be entirely your individual effort, without discussion with any other students.  If you use any material from external sources, you must provide proper attribution.
  • Weekly lab assignments: You are free to discuss all aspects of lab assignments with your other classmates, the teaching assistants and the professor during the lab.  However, all code and reports that you submit are expected to be the result of your individual effort. If you work on the lab outside of class (e.g., due to an absence), then it must be entirely your individual effort, without discussion with any other students.  If you use any material from external sources, you must provide proper attribution (as shown here).
  • HomeworksHomework: All submitted homeworks are homework is expected to be the result of your individual effort. You are free to discuss course material and approaches to problems with your other classmates, the teaching assistants and the professor, but you should never misrepresent someone else’s work as your own. If you use any material from external sources, you must provide proper attribution.
  • Quizzes: Each online quiz will be an open-notes individual test.  The student may consult their course materials and notes when taking the quizzes, but may not consult any other external sources.
  • Exams: Each exam will be a closedopen-book, closedopen-notes, and closedopen-computer individual written test, which must be completed within a specified time limit.  No class notes or external materials may be consulted when taking the exams.

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