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Here in the US, the new semester is gearing up and professors are back at work. Is everyone ready with their lesson plans? And how much weight will you be placing on teaching Parallelism this year? Let us know by completing your online profile and be sure to take a look at our updated Academic [...]
The Academic Community team together with Brooklyn Technical High School launched a Parallelism Curriculum Pilot, there have been a number of interesting blog posts on the Academic Community website, and, of key importance, we have a number of new parallel programming teaching modules on our Moodle. Finally, be sure to visit the newly redesigned Visual [...]
Now that classes are done for many of us, we can start turning our attention to research and training projects. This last month saw some really great activities in the Middle East; I’ll be highlighting a few of those. I’ll also be be talking about the debut of Intel Software Network TV, a powerful new [...]
Professor Wen-mei Hwu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Common Strategies for Paralelism. It was a treat, indeed an honor, to talk with Professor Wen-mei Hwu on our recent Teach Parallel broadcast. It was also a bit frustrating in that we really only had about 20 minutes of substantive discussion for a topic on which we could have [...]
Teach Parallel Episode #5: Profesor Matthew Wolf Today Professor Tom Murphy and I led our fifth Teach Parallel broadcast and our guest was Professor Matt Wolf from Georgia Tech. For those few unfamiliar with Matt's work, he has been an early adopter of integrating parallelism into the undergraduate curriculum. On today's show, Matt discussed Georgia Tech's threads [...]
Spring is coming on slowly here in Oregon. We are just one state shy of the Canadian border, and it is still grey and rainy, but it is warm, and new green growth is everywhere. Scanning some of the other cities where our academic colleagues are located, I'm seeing similar springlike conditions in Moscow, Beijing, [...]
We in academia and industry are at least a generation behind in preparing the next generation of computer scientists and engineers for parallel and many core computing. So said, Dan Garcia, Lecturer SOE in the Computer Science division of the EECS department at the University of California, Berkeley, to Tom Murphy and I on our [...]
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Spring comes slow and soggy to Oregon where I live. April slogs its way to May, the rains slacken and the sun fights it way from behind grey clouds. Oregonians emerge sodden and blinking into the sunlight. Suddenly strange, summer is here and one beautiful sunny day follows another. A nice change for me this spring is the assumption of my [...]
Killing the Minotaur - Following Ariadne's thread to Supercomputing08 Well, we're not out of the labyrinth [http://www.matrifocus.com/BEL02/Images/ariadne-theseus.jpg] yet, but we are working on it. In preparing for the panel discussion There Is No More Sequential Programming. Why Are We Still Teaching It? at Supercomputing08 , we had each of the participants -AMD, [...]
As some may (not) know, Intel Software College will be in Austin Texas soon at the Supercomputing 08 conference. While the rest of Intel is out extolling the (very real) benefits of Nehalem and other innovations for HPC, we at software college will be doing a couple of very cool things to advance the goal [...]
Sequential programming is dead. So stop teaching it! This teasing diktat points out an important truth – All major manufactures of CPUs, GPUs and ASICs have moved to a many core design, yet universities and colleges are not training engineers in the parallel and concurrent disciplines needed to efficiently program on such systems. To make matters [...]
I am happy to launch my first Blog post as a member of Intel's Software College and Academic Community. Much of this first post is introductionary & I am looking for your feedback. I am working with some of the brightest folks here at Intel, our subject matter experts and architects, such as Clay Breshears, Michael Wrinn, Bob [...]