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Michael Wrinn is a senior course architect in the Intel Software College, where he collaborates with universities to bring parallel computing to the mainstream of undergraduate education. Prior assignments include managing Intel's software engineering lab in Shanghai, and directing the human interface technology research. He was Intel's representative to the committee which produced the first OpenMP specification, and remains active in the parallel computing community. Before joining Intel, Michael worked at Accelrys (San Diego), implementing commercial and research simulation codes on a wide variety of parallel/HPC systems. He holds a Ph.D. (in quantum mechanics) and a B.Sc.(math/chemistry/physics) from McGill University.

Pushing Concurrency at ITiCSE Madrid

By Michael Wrinn (Intel) (4 posts) on July 18, 2008 at 1:49 pm
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ITiCSE, the ACM (and others) sponsored conference on "Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education", took place earlier this month in Madrid; Intel was among the corporate sponsors. The event is, in some sense, a European version of SIGCSE, but on a more intimate scale, omitting, almost entirely, the industry-exhibitor portion (think textbooks) so prominent at the American event. I had [...]

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Category: Multicore, University Curriculum

DAC, part 1: the NVidia tutorial, an ecumenical approach

By Michael Wrinn (Intel) (4 posts) on June 13, 2008 at 4:47 pm
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This week's Design Automation Conference, in Anaheim, included a full-day tutorial called "Programming Massively Parallel Processors: The NVIDIA Exprience". Since my own talk was not until next day, I went ahead and enrolled. As expected, this covered the CUDA programming model in detail -- handling host-device communication ("device" being the NVidia processor, G80 in this case), [...]

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Category: Multicore, University Curriculum

Parallel computing: disappearing from CS curricula???

By Michael Wrinn (Intel) (4 posts) on May 2, 2008 at 2:18 pm
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Now that multicore computing platforms are standard issue (can you even find a single-core system for sale?), a fraction of the academic community is beginning to at least think about adjusting their teaching focus, to align with this reality. Given that context, it was startling to hear a panelist at IPDPS (in Miami, a couple of [...]

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SIGCSE impressions, from a first-timer

By Michael Wrinn (Intel) (4 posts) on March 24, 2008 at 3:11 pm
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I had the pleasure this month of attending my first SIGCSE conference, conveniently located in Portland, within walking distance of home. Now that a week's gone by, a couple of impressions stand out: 1. The tone, compared to a typical academic conference, was remarkably congenial. Technical conferences, in my experience, tend to be combative (everyone's chasing [...]

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Category: Multicore, University Curriculum