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Accelerators To Applications: Supercharging the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum
Parallel and Accelerated Computing Education (PACE) |
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Accelerators To Applications: Supercharging the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum
Parallel and Accelerated Computing Education (PACE) |
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Conventional wisdom and prevailing practice is to offer parallel and accelerated computing courses as upper level electives, reserved for majors. Unfortunately, with parallel and accelerated computing new fundamentals for computer science, this leaves most students in the dark ages when it comes to thinking parallel when looking for new approaches to solving today's challenging computer and computational science problems.
The Accelerators to Applications approach is designed to be pervasive, affordable, and easily introduced into most any computer and computational science program. By avoiding the requirement to add a new course, the approach stays affordable. By spreading the content through several courses, the approach is pervasive and introduces many more students to concepts of thinking in parallel. By providing hands-on experience, students learn the value and opportunity for parallel computing in real-world situations.
Accelerators to Applications is approximately halfway through its initial project period. Many lessons have been learned that can be used by other departments considering this approach. Materials are starting to emerge, serving as ready examples for others to use and adapt for their own situations.
Come and explore this site, providing your input and comments along the way as feedback to the project. This site is under construction. Please check back for updates.
Site last updated June 7, 2012.