Multi-core Training Workshop at Wuhan Unviersity, China

By Yang, JianFeng (杨剑锋) (1 posts) on May 9, 2008 at 8:06 am

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The Multi-core Training Workshop was held in the National Electrical and Electronic Teaching Base of Wuhan University, China Friday Apr. 11- Thursday Apr. 17, 2008. The workshop was sponsored by Intel and arranged by Wuhan University that brings teachers and scholars together with Intel specialists to make progress in the teaching contents and experience on multi-core related courses. There were approximately 46 attendees from 22 member universities in the China, most of the attendees are titled with associate professor and focus on teaching, and will directly take charge of the curriculum building of Multi-core Related course. All those universities have adopted multi-core content to their syllabus now and will start teaching the multi-core content at Fall 2008. By that time, the undergraduate/graduate students of more than 100 universities in the China will benefit from the Intel Multi-core University Program and, "it is of great meaning to make those future software engineers start understanding the multi-core architecture and multi-threaded programming technologies at university NOW - the multi-core computing era", said by Richard Wang from Intel.

Thanks for the great support from Intel Education Team, Intel SSG, and Intel ISC, it has taken Jolly Wang so much time to prepare for the workshop tomake the event smoothly, Hai Shen and Selwyn You have made some valuable suggestions for the training agenda, Nick Bao, Stanley Wang, Xiaoping Duan and Feilong Huang, have come to the workshop and made wonderful speeches or worked as instructors.

The workshop took 7 days, with 8 class hours per day and 3 hours free lab time per evening, and consists of three panels: the introduction of Intel Multi-core University Program, the multi-core training, and the teaching symposium.

The first panel's presentations focusing on the development of Intel Multi-core University Program in China, Intel Software and Solutions Group (SSG) and, the University Program registration flow were given by Nick Bao and Stanley Wang.

The Training Panel's presentations were delivered by Jianfeng Yang(WHU), Qingsong Shi(ZJU), Xiaoping Duan and Feilong Huang(Intel). Here the Intel standard training module was adopted on this panel and we add some other useful topics such as parallel architecture, MPI. The lab environment was maintained by Yinbo Xie (WHU). The key contents of training panel include:

At the third panel, we discussed how to integrate multi-core contents to the syllabus, teaching contents and emphasis. Prof Ting Wang of NUDT was invited to give a keynote speech of curriculum building experience of undergraduate course "Compiler Principle", the National Module Curriculum. Presentations by Dr. Qingsong Shi from Zhejiang University and Dr. Jianfeng Yang from Wuhan University delivered the curriculum (Intel-MOE Module Curriculum) building experience to the participations also. And at the symposium, each university and each teacher introduced the curriculum building status of multi-core related course and their research interests. The discussion made the participants understand each other and increased the friendship among faculties.

Curriculum CD and Courseware were donated to the all participating universities, and from the feedback forms, all the attendances were satisfied with the workshop.

A special thank you goes out to all who attended and contributed to a very successful event.

Categories: Multicore, University Curriculum

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