| March 26, 2011 12:00 AM PDT | |
Argentine members of the Intel Academic Community are, at most, a dozen. However small, this is a lively community, eager to learn and sharing experiences on teaching parallel programming.
Pushed by the multi-core architecture expansion and the increased accessibility to high-performance clusters, the teaching of parallel programming is advancing in the Argentine universities and getting more attention from their authorities. Looking for learning of the experiences of others, and sharing their own experience, a small group of professors at different Argentine universities joined the Intel Academic Community and started participating in the community activities in order to ride this "wave" of interest in parallel programming.
Some achievements (in less than 1 year of community involvement):
Pushed by the multi-core architecture expansion and the increased accessibility to high-performance clusters, the teaching of parallel programming is advancing in the Argentine universities and getting more attention from their authorities. Looking for learning of the experiences of others, and sharing their own experience, a small group of professors at different Argentine universities joined the Intel Academic Community and started participating in the community activities in order to ride this "wave" of interest in parallel programming.
Some achievements (in less than 1 year of community involvement):
- Two of the five winners of the Many-Core Testing Lab contest (for early access to the lab) were from Argentina: Prof. Nicolas Wolovick (Univ. National of Cordoba) and Prof. Miguel Montes (Aeronautic Insitute University). The other 3 winners were from Russia.
- Two Argentine universities won the Spring Early Adopters Award 2011, for adapting (or creating) parallel and distributed computing courses following the proposed NSF/IEEE-TCPP Curriculum Initiative on Parallel and Distributed Computing. Prof. Marcelo Arroyo (Univ. National of Rio Cuarto) and Prof. Claudio Delrieux (Univ. National of the South) are implementing their new courses with the help of a monetary award by Intel and the NSF.
- Prof. Javier Iparraguirre (National Technologic University - Bahia Blanca Campus) is the first professor in Latin America (see the map!) teaching a course on parallel programming using courseware on OpenCL provided by the AMD* University Program.
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| April 27, 2011 3:32 PM PDT
Javier Iparraguirre
| Thank you Ricardo!! We are working hard and we are having fun too!! |
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Ricardo Medel (Intel)
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Paul Steinberg (Intel)
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Thank you so much for bringing the activities of the Argentinian professors to our attention. It is very encouraging to see so much activity and innovation. I would especially like to congratulate the winners of the MTL and IEEE-TCPP grants. I look forward to seeing the fruits of their efforts enter into university curriculums in South America and worldwide.