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Posts from Matthew Wolf 
Parallelism Education Workshop @ SC 2011 -- An open invitation
By Matthew Wolf (9 posts) on November 9, 2011 at 11:54 am
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It’s that time again -- I and my colleagues from the Educational Alliance for a Parallel Future (EAPF) which included Adobe, AMD, Intel, Microsoft and a host of other academic and industry partners are happily out challenging the status quo again! We are running a session on the trials, tribulations, and possibilities in teaching about [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Tags: Benedict Gaster, Clay Breshears, Computer Science, Daniel Ernst, Dick Brown, EAPF, education, James Reinders, Kevin Goldsmith, Matthew Wolf, Michael Wrinn, Mike McCool, parallelism, SC11, Supercomputing, Supercomputing 2011, Tim Mattson
Sea of cores: Updates from the Beagle's journey
By Matthew Wolf (9 posts) on September 14, 2010 at 5:03 pm
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We just had our IDF panel a few hours ago, as promised in the earlier blog post. I made a comparison of our current state of the art in parallel computing to a quote that I got out of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species, and it led to some interesting ripples in the subsequent discussion [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Tags: Academic, Computer Science, parallelism
Why Concurrency is Dead
By Matthew Wolf (9 posts) on August 13, 2010 at 5:47 pm
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OK... Now that I have you hooked, let me explain what I mean. I don't mean that the concept of concurrency is dead -- far from it. What I mean, instead, is that we should stop using the word as if it means some sort of distinctive programming model. It's all parallel, folks. This is [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Calling all parallel languages & libraries!
By Matthew Wolf (9 posts) on December 14, 2009 at 4:13 pm
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As I mentioned in my previous post, I have a set of lectures on pthreads that I've reworked to try to challenge students, since it turned out that several of my colleagues and I were doing almost the same content several classes in a row. There's another things I do there, though, that I thought [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Tags: Curriculum, education, languages, Libraries, parallelism, programming
Multicore in Systems Classes -- #2 Beyond "Parallel"
By Matthew Wolf (9 posts) on December 8, 2009 at 12:11 pm
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This topic has been mulling around in my head for a while, but it was really only in discussions with several people at SuperComputing a couple of weeks ago that I figured out how to explain what was bothering me. As I mentioned in the last post in this series, I'm teaching a junior-level systems [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Tags: Curriculum, Matthew Wolf, parallelism
Musings on social media in education
By Matthew Wolf (9 posts) on October 23, 2009 at 12:38 pm
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Initially, this post was going to be titled "To blog or not to blog", but that seemed to perhaps cut a little too close to my perhaps overly infrequent updates here. What I wanted to muse about a bit, however, was the sudden currency of the issues around higher education and the use of social [...]
Category: Academic
Multicore in Systems Classes -- #1
By Matthew Wolf (9 posts) on October 23, 2009 at 12:38 pm
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I'm giving this a very leading title -- with any luck this is the first of a series of blog entries about my experiences weaving multicore concepts and issues into the junior-level Operating Systems course that I'm teaching this semester. The title is specifically "Design of Operating Systems", which is really a perfect way to [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Know Multicore? How can I tell?
By Matthew Wolf (9 posts) on June 2, 2009 at 10:35 am
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Hello, all. The semester's finally over, and I now have some time to write up the various things that have been ruminating in the back of my mind. Tom's earlier blog post resonates nicely with one of those... namely, what is it that I, as an educator, could measure that would let me tell if [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Multicore in the classroom -- say it three times
By Matthew Wolf (9 posts) on December 20, 2007 at 11:19 am
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I have been invited into the Intel Blogosphere to come give a perspective on the academic impact of the on-coming grand revolution in computing – the transition to multicore. A deliberately provocative description, I admit; I expect many of you are like me and hear a "the world will be transformed" announcement about once a [...]