5th NSF/TCPP Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education (EduPar-15)
In conjunction with
29th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium,
May 25-29, 2015, Hyderabad, INDIA
29th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium,
May 25-29, 2015, Hyderabad, INDIA
CALL FOR PAPERS
Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) now permeates most computing activities. The pervasiveness of computing devices containing multicore CPUs and GPUs, including home and office PCs, laptops, and mobile devices, is making even common users dependent on parallel processing. Certainly, it is no longer sufficient for even basic programmers to acquire only the traditional sequential programming skills. The preceding trends point to the need for imparting a broad-based skill set in PDC technology at various levels in the educational fabric woven by Computer Science (CS) and Computer Engineering (CE) programs as well as related computational disciplines. However, the rapid changes in computing hardware platforms and devices, languages, supporting programming environments, and research advances, more than ever challenge educators in knowing what to include in the curriculum and what to teach in any given semester or course.
The 5th workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education invites unpublished manuscripts from individuals or teams from academia, industry, and other educational and research institutes on topics pertaining to the teaching of PDC topics in the Computer Science and Engineering curriculum as well as in Computational Science and with PDC and high performance computing (HPC) concepts. The emphasis of the 5th workshop continues to be on undergraduate education, although certain aspects of graduate education, if relevant to undergraduates, may be considered at the discretion of the program committee. The workshop especially seeks papers that report on experience with implementing aspects of the NSF/TCPP or ACM/IEEE CS2013 curriculum or other novel approaches to incorporating PDC topics into undergraduate core courses that are taken by the majority of students in a program. Methods, pedagogical approaches, tools, and techniques that have the potential for adoption across the broader community are of particular interest.
This effort is in coordination with the TCPP curriculum initiative (http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~tcpp/
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
1. Pedagogical issues in PDC
2. Novel ways of teaching PDC topics, including informal learning environments
3. Models for incorporating PDC topics in core CS/CE curriculum
4. Experience with incorporating PDC topics into core CS/CE courses
5. Experience with incorporating PDC topics in the context of other applications learning
6. Pedagogical tools, programming environments, and languages for PDC
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: Authors are asked to submit 6-8 page papers in pdf format at the EasyChair submission site https://www.easychair.
Submissions will be reviewed based on the novelty of contributions, impact on broader undergraduate curriculum, particularly on core curriculum, relevance to the goals of the workshop, and, for experience papers, the results of their evaluation and the evaluation methodology.
All accepted papers will appear in the IPDPS workshop proceedings.
IMPORTANT DATES:
January 11, 2015: Abstract submission deadline
January 18, 2015: Paper submission deadline
February 20, 2015: Author notification
February 28, 2015: Camera-ready paper deadline
ORGANIZATION:
Workshop Chair:
Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University
Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University
Program Chair:
Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University
Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University
Proceedings Chair
Martina Barnas, Indiana University
Martina Barnas, Indiana University
Program Committee (tentative):
Allen, Gabrielle, Louisiana State University
Banicescu, Ioana, Mississippi State University
Brito, Andrey, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
Brown, Richard, St. Olaf College
Buck, Scott, Intel
Bhavsar, Virendra, University of New Brunswick
Crowder, Grace, National Security Agency
Dehne, Frank, Carleton University
Dongarra, Jack, University of Tennessee
Garland, Michael, NVIDIA
Gordon, Steven, Ohio Supercomputer Center
Gupta, Anshul, IBM Research
Kaeli, David, Northeastern University
Kant, Krishna, Temple University
Kothapalli, Kishore, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India
Lathrop, Scott, Shodor
Lumsdaine, Andrew, Indiana University
Neeman, Henry, University of Oklahoma
Pacheco, Peter, University of San Francisco
Padua, David, University of Illinois
Parashar, Manish, Rutgers University
Patt, Yale, The University of Texas at Austin
Phillips, Cynthia, Sandia National Laboratories
Prasad, Sushil, Georgia State University
Robert, Yves, ENS Lyon
Rosenberg, Arnold, Northeastern University
Sahni, Sartaj, University of Florida
Sussman, Alan, University of Maryland
Vivien, Frédéric, INRIA
Weems, Charles, University of Massachusetts
Wrinn, Michael, Intel
Wu, Jie, Temple University
Yang, Yuanyuan, Stony Brook University
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