[ie-announce] New working group on Parallel Computing - Call for Participation

[Cristina Pereira]

Dear Colleagues,

Looking back to the last European Computer Science Summit of Informatics 
Europe we would like to draw your attention to a new initiative actively 
discussed in Milan. We are talking about a new Working Group within 
Informatics Europe which was announced in Milan:

*"Parallel Computing (Supercomputing) Education in Europe: State-of-Art". *

Why did Informatics Europe take a decision to start this working group? 
Parallelism and concurrency have become an integral part of computer 
science for the last decade and, moreover, the degree of parallelism is 
constantly growing year by year. In 2020 there will be thousands cores 
in laptops and dozens/hundreds cores in mobile devices. How many of our 
students are ready for this forthcoming reality? We suppose, just a few...

Why did we mention "Supercomputing" in the title of the working group? 
Supercomputing is an essential part of computing, it is one of the most 
important parts of parallel computing, it is a point where parallelism 
is concentrated, it is an area where numerous breakthrough technologies 
appear first before being widely used.

In summary, it is really time to think seriously about parallel 
computing and education.

What did we talk in Milan about? To be able to move in this direction we 
need to form a relatively small working group (about 10 people) with the 
mission:

*- to **show the need for urgent changes in higher education in the area 
of computational sciences,*
*- to compose a survey of the current landscape of parallel computing 
and supercomputing education in Europe with respect to different 
universities and countries,*
*- to prepare a set of recommendations how to bring ideas of parallel 
computing and supercomputing into higher educational systems of European 
countries.*

If you feel that this is your topic, if you are interested to join the 
working group to be able to bring your ideas and to share your knowledge 
with our community - you are highly welcome!

Let us know about you decision _*by March, 9, 2012 sending a brief 
message to "wg-*__*hpc-edu*__*@parallel.ru".*_

If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us: 
voevodin at parallel.ru, gergel at unn.ru.

Sincerely Yours,

Prof. Vladimir Voevodin, MSU and  Prof. Victor Gergel, NNSU
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