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Subject: Intel® Academic Community News- February 12th 2009
Around this time of the year many of us start thinking about the professional events and trainings we'd like to attend. With the current economic downturn, and tightening budgets, everyone is looking for alternative ways to get the necessary trainings, make the right professional connections, and stay in touch with the latest technologies. Online trainings and virtual events, webinars and video casts and even social media connections like Facebook* and Twitter* all have started taking a more important role in professional life. What will you do for professional development this year? The Academic Community has a great selection of resources that can help. Let us know if you have any recommendations or requests.
In this Bulletin:
•· Parallel Architecture for Games
•· Thinking in Parallel: Expert Tips
•· Parallelism Faculty Training
•· Russia Webcast Studio
•· Academic Community on Facebook
•· Events
Parallel Architecture for Games Courseware
The Parallel Architecture for Games framework is a multi-threaded game engine designed to scale to as many processors as are available. The course materials for this framework include a lecture, a full version of the Smoke Technology demo, and two optional labs to provide further hands-on exploration. Download the course materials for your classes today.
Thinking in Parallel: Expert Tips to Master Parallel Programming
Achieving application performance on Multi-Core processors relies on the synchronization of algorithms and data structures all working together effortlessly. It also demands a shift in thinking about how to approach the solution. Get a perspective from three veteran Intel engineers, Henry Gabb, Tim Mattson and Clay Breshears, in Thinking in Parallel.
New Intel Parallelism Faculty Training Launches
This new series, Parallelism Faculty Training & Threading Games for Performance will be launching this month at Universität Stuttgart, Germany - Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems. It is an introduction to Intel® Multi-Core Architecture and a complete survey of the importance of parallelism, threading concepts, multi-threading methodology and programming with threads. Get the details on this course. Are you interested in bringing this Intel instructor led training to your area? Put in a request at academic.community@intel.com
Russia: Intel-sponsored Webcast Studio, Saint-Petersburg State University
The Mathematics and Mechanics Department of Saint-Petersburg State University received grant from Intel to establish a studio which will deliver webcast lectures on High Performance Technologies. The first seminars in 2008 were led by Academic Community members; Professor Victor Gergel from Nizhny Novgorod State University and Professor Sergey Nemnyugin from Saint-Petersburg State University. Over 20 new courses will be delivered in 2009. Find out more information about HPC University in Academic Community news (Russian only).
Academic Community on Facebook
Do you use Facebook? Search for Intel Academic Community Program and join our "Group." It's a great way to get involved and talk about community activities. We hope to see you there. Visit the Academic Community on Facebook.
EVENTS
SIGCSE Symposium, March 5-7. Chattanooga, TN.
The Intel Academic Community Team will be at SIGCSE '09 Symposium hosting afternoon sessions on March 5 and 6. Visit our booth to find more information on how Intel can help you integrate Multi-Core and Parallel Programming into your curriculum.
SIGCSE Pre-Show Training, March 3. Chattanooga, TN.
If you are planning to attend SIGCSE 09, come early for a day of parallelism. Professor Mathew Wolf of Georgia Tech will be discussing Integrating Parallel Programming into your Curriculum and Intel's Michael Wrinn will lead a hands-on Introduction to OpenMP workshop. This is a free event and space is limited so register now to save your seat. Get more information about this opportunity or other Intel related activities at SIGCSE.
Eurographics - March 30-April 3. Munich, Germany.
Join the Intel Academic Community at Eurographics 2009. Intel expert, Matt Pharr will have a keynote address on Software Rendering Redux: Back to the Future with New Graphics Architectures. Get more information and register.
Wolfgang Rosenberg
Intel Academic Community Manager
www.intel.com/software/academic
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