25th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium

Intel Platinum Patron Night at IPDPS 2011 Intel Platinum Patron Night was a fantastic event, with a packed room of 170 attendees passionate about parallel programming in education. Watch the videos from Intel Platinum Patron Night to learn about using games to teach parallelism to undergraduates, recent innovations in design patterns, and hiring at Intel! Download the Intel Platinum Patron Night Presentation (pdf).   Opening Remarks Rowena Turner (Intel Corporation) View video Design Patterns in Practice and Teaching Michael Wrinn (Intel Corporation View video How to Use Games to Teach Parallelism to Undergraduates Ashish Amresh (Arizona State University at Polytechnic Campus) Amit Jindal (Intel Corporation) View video Choosing a Future Career at Intel Corporation Dani Napier (Intel Corporation) Lauren Dankiewicz (Intel Corporation) View video

The 1st NSF/TCPP Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education (EduPar-11) The Intel Academic Community and NSF are supporting the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (NSF/TCPP). NSF/TCPP is working to create a core curriculum for CS/CE undergraduates for parallel and distributed computing (PDC). The 1st workshop invited proposals from academia, industry, and other educational and research institutes to present on teaching PDC topics in undergraduate Computer Science and Engineering curriculum. Topics included: 1. Pedagogical issues in PDC 2. Novel ways of teaching PDC topics 3. Models for incorporating PDC topics in core CS/CE curriculum 4. Experience with incorporating PDC topics into core CS/CE courses. The Challenge of Teaching Program Performance Tuning David Padua (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) View video NSF/TCPP Curriculum Report and Panel Discussion Coordinator: Sushil Prasad (Georgia State) Committee members and Panelists: Chtchelkanova, Almadena (NSF), Das, Sajal (University of Texas at Arlington, NSF), Das, Chita (Penn State, NSF), Dehne, Frank (Carleton University, Canada), Gouda, Mohamed (University of Texas, Austin, NSF), Gupta, Anshul (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Jaja, Joseph (University of Maryland), Kant, Krishna (NSF, Intel), La Salle, Anita (NSF), LeBlanc, Richard (Seattle University), Lumsdaine, Andrew (Indiana University), Padua, David (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Parashar, Manish (Rutgers, NSF), Patt, Yale (UT Austin), Prasad, Sushil (Georgia State University), Prasanna, Viktor (University of Southern California), Robert, Yves (INRIA, France), Rosenberg, Arnold (Colorado State University), Sahni, Sartaj (University of Florida), Shirazi, Behrooz (Washington State University), Sussman, Alan (University of Maryland), Weems, Chip (University of Massachusetts), and Wu, Jie (Temple University) View video Integrating Parallel and Distributed Computing Into Undergraduate Courses at All Levels Steven Bogaerts (Wittenberg University), Kyle Burke (Wittenberg University) and Eric Stahlberg (National Cancer Institute) View video Experiences of an Undergraduate Parallel Computing Course Bo Hong (Georgia Tech) View video Early Adopter: Integrating Concepts from Parallel and Distributed Computing into the Undergraduate Curriculum Eileen Kraemer (University of Georgia) View video Integration of Parallel Topics in the Undergraduate Curriculum, 2011 Joel Adams (Calvin College) View video ASU and Intel Collaboration in Parallel and Distributed Computation Violet Syrotiuk, Yinong Chen, Eric Kostelich, Yann-Hang Lee, Alex Mahalov and Gil Speyer (Arizona State) View video Parallel Computing: Keys to a Future in Computing Stephen Providence (Hampton University) View video Using Games to Teach Parallelism to Computer Science 2nd year and 3rd Year College Students Deepak Vembar and Amit Jindal (Intel) View video Teaching Parallel and Distributed Computing at Masaryk University Jiri Barnat, Lubos Brim and Ivana Cerna (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) View video Parallel Programming in the Computing Curriculum Ankur Gupta, Rahul Hardikar and Jon Sorenson (Butler University) View video PDC Modules for Every Level: A Comprehensive Model for Incorporating PDC Topics into the Existing Undergraduate Curriculum Konstantin Laufer, Chandra Sekharan and George K. Thiruvathukal (Loyola University Chicago) View video Teaching Parallel Computing to Lower-Division Undergraduates Peter Pacheco (University of San Francisco) View video Joint UIUC/UMD Parallel Algorithms/Programming Course David Padua (Urbana), Uzi Vishkin (Maryland) and Jeffrey Carver (University of Alabama) View video

Architecting Parallel Software: Design patterns in practice and teaching Design patterns can systematically identify reusable elements in software engineering, and have been particularly effective in codifying practice in object-oriented software. A team of researchers centered at UC Berkeley’s Parallel Computing Laboratory continues to investigate a design pattern approach to parallel software; the effort has matured to the point that an undergraduate course was delivered on the topic in Fall 2010. This talk will briefly describe the pattern language itself, then demonstrate its application in examples from both image processing and game design.

Michael Wrinn manages Intel's Innovative Software Education team, which collaborates with universities to bring parallel computing to the mainstream of undergraduate education. His prior assignments include managing Intel's software engineering lab in Shanghai, and directing the human interface technology research. He was Intel's representative to the committee which produced the first OpenMP specification, and remains active in the parallel computing community. Before joining Intel, Michael worked at Accelrys (San Diego), implementing commercial and research simulation codes on a wide variety of parallel/HPC systems. He holds a Ph.D. (in quantum mechanics) and a B.Sc.(math/chemistry/physics) from McGill University.

Teaching Parallelism Using Games Academic institutions do not have to spend expensive multi-core hardware to support game-based courses to teach parallelism.   We will discuss what teaching methodologies educators can use for integrating parallel computing curriculum inside a game engine. We will talk about the full game development process, from game design to game engineering and how parallelism is critical.   We will show five game demos that mirror current trends in the industry and how educators can use in these games in the classroom. We will also show the learning outcomes, what parallelism topics are appropriate to teach students at various levels.  We will demonstrate how to take games running serially and modify them to run parallel.

Ashish Amresh leads the Computer Gaming curriculum initiatives at the School of Computing and Informatics at Arizona State University. He completed his MS in computer science from ASU in 2000, then worked in the video game industry as a graphics engineer programmer, and returned to ASU to work on his doctorate in computer science. While working on his doctoral degree, Amresh led the efforts in building the prototype that eventually resulted in the launching of the Decision Theatre at ASU in May 2005. In the same year he was awarded the Graduate College Teaching Excellence Award.

An Intel veteran of 11 years, Amit Jindal is a Performance Lead at Intel's Digital Home Group, enabling high-performance of Intel-powered Smart TVs. Prior to this role, Amit was involved with performance optimization of large-scale enterprise applications (primarily SAP). Amit started his career at Intel in 2000 as an automation engineer developing, simulating, and optimizing performance of automation in Intel factories. Amit has been a threading/ parallelism evangelist since 2005, teaching courses for Intel Academic Program, serving as panelist in academic conferences, and working with Universities in setting their curriculums. Amit holds an MBA Degree in Global Management, and MS Degree in Computer Science.

Choosing a Future Career at Intel Intel's Dani Napier will introduce why Intel is a great place to work-- it's challenging, has great benefits and is abundant with rewarding growth opportunities. She will expand on why parallelism is crucial to Intel's growth strategy and give an overview of the various types of jobs in which knowledge of parallel and distributed processing apply at Intel. Finally, Dani will explain the new hire development process and why Intel is the company that will help you become successful in your desired career path. Lauren Dankiewicz will discuss the recruiting process and how to approach finding a job that is the right fit for you!

Hi, there! My name is Dani. I've been with Intel for almost 14 years, mostly in Chandler, Arizona. I started out as an intern in New Mexico's fabs. Then I was hired into a full-time job and have held a variety of engineering and business roles ever since. When I first started as an Intel engineer I wished I had done three things: 1) I wish I would've taken a couple of business courses 2) I wish I would've taken more stats courses, and 3) I wish I would've learned to give presentations more effectively. All these things I eventually learned at Intel through all the coursework they have in place for employees. I can tell you that in my entire career I have never stopped learning, either from coursework or from brilliant peers.

Lauren Dankiewicz joined Intel in April 2011 as a Recent College Graduate (RCG). At Intel, she is a marketing manager in the Academic Community. Lauren graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 2009 with a B.A. in Chinese Language (Mandarin) and B.S. in Business Administration. She is now pursuing a Master's degree in Computer Science.

Using Games to Teach Parallelism to Undergraduates- Presentation at the NSF/TCPP Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education (EduPar-11) The Visual Computing Software Enabling (VCSE) group at Intel has developed some exciting game demos that are ideal for teaching the basic tenets of parallelism, including data and task decomposition, scheduling techniques, and software architecture. These demos are designed for an audience ranging from 2nd to 4th year, while retaining the emphasis on hands-on, laboratory instruction. Intel’s faculty collaborators have liked this approach, as today’s students are familiar with multi-media and rich visualization, and games act as immediately likable and interesting delivery vehicles for learning these important parallelism concepts. We have two primary objectives: update undergraduate curriculum with a laboratory-based 2nd year course on parallel computation, and introduce some of the parallelism concepts and profiling tools used in the industry. This approach will help students adopt a “think parallel” mentality early and to see the importance of using profiling tools to develop correct and high-performance code for greater effectiveness. Further, we will share methodologies that improve student understanding of the basic principles of parallel computing.

Deepak Vembar is an Engineer at Intel where he focuses on developing and optimizing graphics and game technologies on Intel hardware. Prior to joining Intel, Deepak was a graduate student at Clemson University and received his Master's and PhD degrees in Computer Science.

An Intel veteran of 11 years, Amit Jindal is a Performance Lead at Intel's Digital Home Group, enabling high-performance of Intel-powered Smart TVs. Prior to this role, Amit was involved with performance optimization of large-scale enterprise applications (primarily SAP). Amit started his career at Intel in 2000 as an automation engineer developing, simulating, and optimizing performance of automation in Intel factories. Amit has been a threading/ parallelism evangelist since 2005, teaching courses for Intel Academic Program, serving as panelist in academic conferences, and working with Universities in setting their curriculums. Amit holds an MBA Degree in Global Management, and MS Degree in Computer Science.

Intel Software Network at Supercomputing 09.

For all of those who were able to meet us at the recent SuperComputing Conference in Portland, either live at the event or live online -Thank you; it was great meeting you!

For those who could not make the event, this web page will let you see the scope of our activities and provide some great resources.

Intel Academic Community Sponsored a number of Talks and panels

Tuesday, November 17	Friday, November 20
Teach Parallel: Developing a Curriculum for Parallelism Moderator: Tom Murphy (Contra Costa College) Dr. John Gustafson (Intel Labs) Robert Chesebrough (Intel) Dr. Jim Larus (Microsoft) Dr. Bill Dally (NVIDIA) Dr. Simon McIntosh-Smith (Bristol University)	Preparing the World for Ubiquitous Parallelism Moderator: Dr. Matthew Wolf (Georgia Institute of Technology) Dr. Benedict Gaster (AMD) Kevin Goldsmith (Adobe Systems Inc.) Dr. Charlie Peck (Earlham College) Dr. Steven Parker (NVIDIA) Dr. Michael Wrinn (Intel Corporation) Dr. Evan Smyth (DreamWorks)

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Teach Parallel! - Intel Academic Community & Supercomputing Education on Intel Software Network TV.

Intel Software Network TV streamed many of the keynotes, invited talks live as well as conversations with key attendees.

 

 

Well you missed the live talks, but you can still see the archived version by accessing the list on the player above or clicking on a Teach Parallel! - with Paul steinberg & Professor Tom Murphytalk below.
Dr. Wilf Pinfold, General Chair, Super Computing Conference 2009.	Dr Evan Smyth, Principal Software Engineer, DreamWorks Animation.	Dr. Daniel Ernst, University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire.	Dr. Joel Adams, Dept of Computer Science, Calvin College.
Dr. Charlie Peck, Earlham College.	Laura McGinnis, Supercomputing Education Chair, 2010.	Dr. Tim Mattson, Intel Principal Engineer. Patterns, Pattern languages and Parallel Computing.	Jason Arviso, Navajo Technical College, Internet to the Hogan.
Dr. John Gustafson, He's not just a scientist, he's a law!	Dr. David O'Hallaron, Intel Labs Pittsburgh & Carnegie Mellon University. Open Cirrus Cloud Computing Project.	Dr. Jesse Bemley, JEF -The Joint Educational Foundation.	Dr. Matt Wolf, Research Scientist CERCS Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems.
Dr. James Reinders, Intel Chief Software Evangelist.	Todd Rosenquist, Sr. Technical Consulting Engineer, Intel® Math Kernel Library	Skylar Thompson, Parallel Octave, Bootable Cluster CD.	Dr. Paul McKenney, Distinguished Engineer at IBM Linux Technology Center
Dr. Robert M. Panoff, founder and Executive Director of The Shodor Education	Werner Krotz-Vogel, Technical Marketing Engineer at Intel for Intel® Cluster Tools	Dr. Julie Mullen, MIT Lincoln Lab. Parallel Mat Lab.	Dr. Rebecca Hartman- Baker, Oak Ridge Natioanl Lab. Women in Computing.

 

Other Videos and activities from SC09:

2009 SC Student Programming Challenge	Professor Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Tech.
Andrew Fitz-Gibbon,Instructor, SC Education.	Dr. Shannon Steinfadt, Los Alamos National Labs.

 

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The complete list of Intel panels, talks, BOFs and events can be downloaded: Download the Intel talk schedule, PDF (427 KB)
Intel Booth Theater Presentations schedule:Download the Theater Schedule PDF (427 KB)

Intel @ Supercomputing 09 blogs:

• In the Company of Friends, by Tom Murphy. (Your invitation to the Panel Discussion, November 17th, 5:30pm, room C124)
• Subscribe to the Intel Academic Community blog RSS feed

Intel Academic Community Black Belts at Supercomputing 2009:

• Matthew Wolf, Georgia Tech University (Dr. Wolf's blog)
• Tom Murphy, Contra Costa College (Dr. Murphy's blog, @wolfmurphy on Twitter)

 

Additional Links:

Keynote and Invited speakers
Time	Tuesday, November 17	Wednesday, November 18
8:30-10:00 AM	Dr. Justin Rattner, Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Intel Corporation. "The Rise of the 3D Internet: Advancements in Collaborative and Immersive Sciences"	Plenary/Kennedy Awards Speakers • Systems Medicine, Transformational Technologies and the Emergence of Predictive, Personalized, Preventive and Participatory (P4) Medicine, Leroy Hood (Institute for Systems Biology) • Kennedy Award Presentation.
10:30 AM-12:00 PM	Steve M. Legensky - HPC and the Challenge of Achieving a Twenty-Fold Increase in Wind Energy (10:30AM - 11:15AM)	Seymour Cray and Sidney Fernbach Award Presentations Dr. Roberto Car and Dr. Michele Parrinello, developers of the Car Parrinello Molecular Dynamics (CPMD) approach for Materials Modeling.

Intel® Software Network TV - Live, Interactive TV for Developers - Launches June 9, 2009.

On June 9, Intel® Software Network TV, a new 24/7 live, interactive TV channel for software developers will go "on the air" at the Intel Software Network.

http://intel.com/software/tv/

Intel Software Network TV launches with a lineup of regularly-scheduled live interactive shows on software and developer topics including Parallel Programming and Visual Computing, along with "behind the scenes" access and special event coverage. Additional shows are planned for later in the year. For live shows, you can interact with the show hosts and with other viewers via the chat feature. If a live show isn't currently on air, you'll see encore presentations of previous shows, and you can always browse the On Demand area to watch any past episode.

Here is a sample of a previously recorded show, Visualize This!

Subscribe to the RSS feed in iTunes (or your podcaster of choice) to automatically receive high-quality downloads of new show episodes as they become available. Watch them whenever and wherever you want.

Follow @isntv on Twitter to be alerted when a show or special live event is about to go live. Don't miss out!

Come join us live for our big launch day on June 9!

Here are the shows and specials we have lined up:

June 9, 8 AM Pacific: Parallel Programming Talk with hosts Aaron Tersteeg, Dr. Clay Breshears and special guest David Patterson of UC Berkeley and UPCRC. Aaron, Clay and David will be discussing the challenges developers face in Parallel Computing today. The radio version of this show has been broadcast since July 2008, with over 14,000 cumulative listeners. Parallel Programming Talk can be seen live every Tuesday at 8AM Pacific on Intel Software Network TV or via podcast .

June 9, 10 AM Pacific: Teach Parallel, a new show for parallel programming in academia. Hosts Paul Steinberg and Professor Tom Murphy of Contra Costa College will tackle the challenges of teaching Parallel Programming in academia and computer science. Teach Parallel can be seen live on alternate Tuesdays at 10AM Pacific on Intel Software Network TV.

Professor Tom Murphy	Paul Steinberg

June 9, 12 PM Pacific: A special chat with guest and Intel Software Network blogging hero, Doug Holland.

June 9, 2:30 PM Pacific: Visualize This! Show host and Intel Software Network Game Development Community Manager Arti Gupta will talk to Visual Computing Community Manager, Steve Pitzel. Steve will introduce the new Artists/Animators community and showcase resources available. This show will focus on what is new and exciting in the world of graphics, animation, and game development. Visualize This! can be seen live on alternate Tuesdays at 2:30PM on Intel Software Network TV.

June 9, 4:00 3:30 PM Pacific: A chat with special guest David Stewart on the recently released Moblin 2.0 beta, with hands on demos.

Links:

Intel Software Network TV: http://intel.com/software/TV

Short URL (for Twitter, etc.): http://bit.ly/isntv

Parallel Programming Talk show episodes: http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/author/aaron-tersteeg/

Teach Parallel show episodes: http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/author/paul-steinberg/

Visualize This show episodes: http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/author/arti-gupta/

Intel Software Network Parallel Programming and Multicore Community: http://www.intel.com/software/multicore

Intel Software Network Visual Computing Community: http://software.intel.com/en-us/visual-computing/

Intel Software Network Academic Community: http://software.intel.com/en-us/academic/

Intel Software Network Manageability Community: http://software.intel.com/en-us/manageability

Intel Software Network Mobile Community: http://software.intel.com/en-us/mobility

Intel Software Network Main Home Page: http://intel.com/software/

SUGGESTED TAGS: Intel, software, developer, code, community, live, video, tv, shows, ISNTV, parallel programming, multicore, visual computing, graphics, manageability, moblin, mobile, academic, podcast

Producer:

Josh Bancroft - joshua.bancroft@intel.com, @jabancroft on Twitter

Media Resources:

Intel Software Network TV RSS feed (subscribe to high quality downloads of show episodes) - http://feeds2.feedburner.com/ISNTV

Intel Software Network TV Twitter Account: http://twitter.com/isntv

Intel Software Network Bloggers:

Aaron Tersteeg - Multicore and Parallel Programming Community Manager, @tersteeg on Twitter

Clay Breshears -Content Concierge for the Intel Developer Network Organization

Arti Gupta - Community Manager, Game Development, @artigupta on Twitter

Steve Pitzel - Community Manager, Visual Computing Community

Paul Steinberg - Academic Community Manager @psteinb on Twitter

Amy Barton - New Media Communications, @amybarton on Twitter

Additional pre-recorded Intel Software Network Videos:

Take Five Videos: www.intel.com/software/videos

Take Five Video YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/intelswnetwork

Unlike with other industries, the most justified approach to measure a supercomputer market would be to assess the total performance of HPC installations in a region rather than the sales volumes of system providers. In supercomputing, a successful project means more computing power for less money, and it is the ability to deliver better price/performance which makes a system developer competitive. Therefore, to estimate a vendor's market share correctly one should look at the total performance of its deliveries rather than at its customers' spendings.

T-Platforms has summed up the results of the year 2008 estimating vendors share of the Russia&CIS supercomputer market. The market share volumes were assessed by the combined peak performance of HPC installations deployed by a vendor in the region during the year*. As only original system manufacturers, or vendors, were rated, the HPC projects implemented by integrators and based on a known vendor's supercomputing platform were attributed to the respective vendors.

The information for analysis was provided by the Supercomputers.ru Web project which collects data on the supercomputer market of Russia and the CIS countries. The project maintained by the Research Computing Center of the Moscow State University hosts the list of the Top 50 most powerful HPC systems in the region, and today is recognized as the most complete and reliable source of information on the local supercomputer market. It should be noted that strictly classified systems upon which no information is available to either Supercomputers.ru or anyone else could not have possibly been taken into account while performing this analysis.

Read the full articel at HPC-Wire >>