Teaching Parallel Processing Using Multicore Computers While Looking

This is what we have This is what we what to have The question

WOU’s Concurrent Systems Class § Is a class designed for seniors in Software Engineering

Our Emphasis Areas § Make learning parallel processing interesting § Promote very much hands-on

Conclusions § Parallel processing is a very interesting area to teach because students gain

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Teaching Parallel Processing Using Multicore Computers While Looking Into the Cloud , Jie Liu Ph. D. Professor and Chair Department of Computer Science Division Western Oregon University Monmouth, OR, USA liuj@wou. edu 1

This is what we have This is what we what to have The question is HOW

WOU’s Concurrent Systems Class § Is a class designed for seniors in Software Engineering track § Is coding heavy using Visual Studio 2010/2012 and C# on multi-core PCs § Covers many PDC proposed topics such as • • parallel computer organizations parallel algorithms on PRAM parallel programming concepts parallel sorting algorithms – especially bitonic sort

Our Emphasis Areas § Make learning parallel processing interesting § Promote very much hands-on learning § Foster independent thinkers and encourage “thinking outside of the box” § Encourage forward looking • Discuss GPU • Discuss HPC in the Cloud • Discuss new products such as Intel's Knights Corner 3120 A

Conclusions § Parallel processing is a very interesting area to teach because students gain new knowledge while reviewing old § Students enjoy the class very much as shown below Question Strongly No Agree Opinion Disagree Strongly Disagree 37. 5 50 12. 5 0 0 75 25 0 0 0 8. We should have had more programming assignments 0 37. 5 25 0 9. Bitonic sort is an elegant algorithm and is very interesting 37. 5 50 0 12. 5 0 10. I am glad I have decided to take the classes 87. 5 12. 5 0 0 0 1. Every CS student should take this class. 3. The class discussed interesting topics.