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DTSTART:20111116T013000Z
DTEND:20111116T030000Z
LOCATION:WSCC 611/612
DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:ABSTRACT: The industry and research communities face increasing workforce preparedness challenges in parallel (and distributed) computing, due to today’s ubiquitous multicore and cloud computing. What new, broad-based initiatives are addressing those challenges? What will come next? This BoF, co-hosted by leaders of several of those initiatives, features an interactive dialog among session attendees for community feedback, input, and participation, toward a goal of accelerating the development of a parallelism-savvy computing workforce, motivated by forward-looking efforts to encourage parallelism education and training. The session is convened by the Educational Alliance for a Parallel Future (EAPF), an organization with wide-ranging industry/academia/research membership, including Intel, AMD, and other prominent technology corporations.  It also features leaders from the ACM Tech Pack on Parallel Computing authoring group and two NSF-funded projects for integrating parallelism throughout the undergraduate computing curriculum.  Focus:  industry/research needs;  ecosystem-wide dissemination of concepts and practices of parallel computing.
SUMMARY:Broad-based Efforts to Expand Parallelism Preparedness in the Computing Workforce
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