Pilot Training Class - Success!

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October 29, 2009 1:00 AM PDT


I just realized that I never wrote a blog about the pilot training class we conducted in Santa Clara California.    I first blogged about it here  Shannon Cepeda also wrote about it here.   We held the class in California in July we had attendees come from the surrounding bay area.  We even had a couple of attendees come from out of state to attend the class.   The good news is that every single attendee reported they would recommend the course to their colleagues!   We reserved the Pilot class for software developers outside of Intel.   We had so many requests to attend the class from Intel software engineers we scheduled several internal classes within Intel.    Based on the uniformly positive feedback we received for the class we decided to take this out and offer as a program.   I expect this to be ready late Q1 of 2010.   We listened to all of the feedback from the class and have improved so we took a very good class and made it better.    For those of you who want to work on something now - Take a look at Robert Reed's blogs solving the n-bodies problem with Intel(r) Threading Building Blocks.    This is actually one of the exercises we used in this course on parallel programming course - so you don't need to wait - Down load an evaluation copy of Intel(r) Parallel Studio and try out the diferent steps Robert goes through with optimizing and threading this code sample (the source code is attached to his second blog in the series).   I will make sure to let you all know when the classes will roll out.

-David Mackay