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Robert Chesebrough is the manager of the Intel Software College course architect team, and is responsible for bringing new course content to the ISC portfolio. He has been a contributing courseware developer and instructor for Intel Software College for over 5 years. Prior his management role at Intel Software College, Robert was a senior technical consulting engineer with the compiler marketing and technical support group in Intel’s Software Products division. He authored the “Intel® Compiler Black-Belt Users Guide to undocumented switches". He holds a BS in Physics from the University of New Mexico and has been a software developer for the US Department of Energy, Sandia National Labs & Los Alamos National Labs beginning in the early 1980’s and also in the in the aerospace industry at SBS technologies in the late 1990’s. He is married and has two children who are deeply appreciated and who are both taught at home by their parents. He enjoys programming, mathematics, physics and fishing.

PGAS versus MPI and what should we teach undergraduates??

By Robert Chesebrough (Intel) (3 posts) on April 22, 2008 at 8:34 am
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One of the highlights of this 22nd annual IPDPS conference was the Wednesday night panelist discussion. The discussion probed the general topic of what the current parallel programming experts (eps IPDPS faculty & researchers) can teach to a new generation who will just now be cutting their teeth on MC processors and growing up in [...]

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Functional Languages versus threading

By Robert Chesebrough (Intel) (3 posts) on April 22, 2008 at 8:26 am
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I had responded to some questions in my other post (view from 22nd annual IPDPS - http://softwareblogs.intel.com/2008/04/15/some-views-from-the-22nd-international-parallel-amp-distributed-processing-symposium/) about functional languages.  It was suggested by Clay B that I should make a seperate post along the functional language topic - so here goes.  I asked Dr Dennis (Prf Emeritus CS at MIT) his thoughts on what should [...]

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Some Views from the 22nd International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium

By Robert Chesebrough (Intel) (3 posts) on April 15, 2008 at 6:30 pm
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Greetings from the 22nd International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium in Miami! I had the privilege of discussing the future of parallel programming with a number of distinguished luminaries in parallel computing! The topics discussed in side hall discussions and informal lunch table chats were varied and dynamic. Given that this is the first day of [...]

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