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Discuss the challenges of teaching parallel programming in a serial world. Hear about and share your views on the changes coming as technology evolves to more parallel more often.

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Brown goes to Town. Thinking Parallel in Minnesota

By Zander Sprague (Intel) (12 posts) on November 20, 2009 at 11:41 am
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I have to say that I love my job. I get to meet all kinds of fascinating people all on the same road to THINK PARALLEL.  One such person is Dr. Dick Brown of St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Professor Brown attended last year’s SIGCSE in Chattanooga, TN, and heard Michael Wrinn of Intel’s [...]

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My Half Day at Supercomputing 09 at Portland Expo Center

By Tao B Wang (Intel) (9 posts) on November 19, 2009 at 3:36 pm
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As usual of this year at Portland metro, it is raining and windy this week. After watched the SC09 keynotes at Intel Software Network TV, I decided to utilize the pass I got from our Academic Community manager to go to SC09. Trimet MAX Light Rail is my best choice as it will drop me right [...]

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Intel Parallel Universe Portal: A New Cloud-Based Analysis Tool to Measure Multicore Application Scaling

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on November 17, 2009 at 7:01 am
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Today, Intel Corporation unveiled Intel® Parallel Universe Portal, a cloud-based scaling analysis tool to help with parallel programming.

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TechEd 2009 Europe

By Asaf Shelly (16 posts) on November 5, 2009 at 5:05 pm
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Hi All, If you are going to the event next week in Berlin then let me know about it. Maybe we can meet face to face and if there are enough of us perhaps even a gourp community meeting. This can be a good opportunity to meet the experts. In any case, you are all welcome to [...]

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Five role playing exercises to introduce parallelism concepts

By Robert Chesebrough (Intel) (8 posts) on November 5, 2009 at 11:12 am
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Since the kickoff of the High School Parallelism bootcamp this summer, I've received several requests for a write up of the five role playing activities we used. The activities put students in the place of procesor cores and had them perform tasks in parallel. These activities proved to be popular among many of the [...]

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In the company of friends

By wolfmurphy (9 posts) on November 4, 2009 at 12:57 pm
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You are hereby invited to a gathering on November 17 at 5:30 pm in room C124 of the Oregon Convention Center in Portland. We are having a panel discussion focused on incorporating parallelism into the Computer Science curriculum. Of course, you might need to purchase a day pass to SC09 to attend, if you are [...]

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IEE IV 2009: Conference on the latest developments in the teaching and learning of Informatics in Europe

By Christoph Hermann (1 posts) on November 3, 2009 at 4:16 pm
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Dear Colleagues, As a member of the Informatics Education Europe Organizing Committee it is a pleasure for me to inform you of the IEE IV 2009 conference which will take place on November 5-6 in Freiburg, Germany. Informatics Education Europe IV is the fourth in a series of conferences promoted by ACM to provide a forum for [...]

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A program Harold Hill might like

By wolfmurphy (9 posts) on November 3, 2009 at 4:15 pm
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I just finished writing a 76 byte program. I gave my Computer Architecture midterm yesterday. One of the four problems was to predict the output of a 17 byte program. This is with an assembly language where the bulk of the instructions are three bytes. The correct answer is of course 42, once the unconditional branch [...]

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"Embedded" University Program Reloaded from China!

By Selwyn H. You 游骅 (Intel) (8 posts) on October 28, 2009 at 4:30 am
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If you are not new to Intel, you'll know Intel is not new to the Embedded world. Names like Xscale, IXP had gained big fame for Intel in university campus. Professors are now looking at what actions coming up for the "new babies" - Atom platforms. On Oct.21st till Oct.23rd, a faculty workshop on curriculum of [...]

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Spreading the Word in Romainia

By Peter Hinsbeeck (Intel) (3 posts) on October 26, 2009 at 1:46 am
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Teaching a class is a real pleasure when the participants are all fully engaged in the subject matter. Such was the case ealier this month when we assembled faculty members from University Polytechnica Bucharest (PUB), as well as 5 other universities around Romania to review our course materials on parallel programming. The event began with [...]

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Musings on social media in education

By Matthew Wolf (4 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 [...]

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Multicore in Systems Classes -- #1

By Matthew Wolf (4 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 [...]

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Check out this McCool event in December at UPCRC

By Rita Turkowski (Intel) (14 posts) on October 22, 2009 at 11:09 pm
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December 3rd at 4PM CST 12/3 | 4PM | 2405 Siebel Center for Computer Science UPCRC Illinois Research Seminar: A Structured, Unified Approach to Multi-Core and Many-Core Computing - with Applications by Michael McCool, Intel & U of Waterloo

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Intel Academic Community Courseware Moodle, An Example of Use of Moodle for a Corporate LMS Platform

By Tao B Wang (Intel) (9 posts) on October 19, 2009 at 3:34 pm
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Since my first blog on moodle topic published last April “Moodle Community, Another Example of Moore's Law”, I have received many responses either by blog replies or emails. For those who asked me about moodle and did not get my response, I can only offer apologies as I am still a learner and have no [...]

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Blurring the lines between science and engineering- identity crisis in Informatics?

By Stephanie Brumat (Intel) (14 posts) on October 14, 2009 at 8:16 am
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The European Computer Science Summit’s last day panel discussion went more deeply in to the subject of the conference and raised old questions and controversies among Computer scientists. Wendy Hall advocated computer scientists not to think of themselves as a 'service science' building applications to enable other sciences’ work and encouraged the audience to think [...]

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