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DTEND:20111116T200000Z
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DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:ABSTRACT: Industry, academia and research communities face increasing workforce preparedness challenges in parallel (and distributed) computing, due to the onslaught of  multi-/many-core and cloud computing platforms.   What initiatives have begun to address those challenges?  What changes to hardware platforms, languages and tools will be necessary?  How will we train the next generation of engineers for ubiquitous parallel and distributed computing?=0A=0AFollowing on from the successful model used at SC10, the session will be highly interactive, combining aspects of BOF, workshop, and Panel discussions.  An initial panel will lay out some of the core issues in this topic with experts from multiple areas in education and industry.  Following this will be moderated breakouts, much like collective mini-BOFS,  for further discussion and to gather ideas from participants about industry and research needs.
SUMMARY:Parallelism, the Cloud, and the Tools of the Future for the next generation of practitioners
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