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<font face="Calibri"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p>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:<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><b>“Parallel
Computing (Supercomputing) Education in Europe: State-of-Art”.
</b><o:p></o:p></span> <br>
<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p>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… <o:p></o:p></span> <br>
<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><span style="" lang="EN-US">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.
<o:p></o:p></span> <br>
<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><span style="" lang="EN-US">In summary,
it is really time to think seriously about parallel computing
and education.<o:p></o:p></span> <br>
<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p>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:</span><br>
<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><b>- to </b><span
style=""><b>show the need for urgent changes in higher
education in the area of computational sciences,</b><o:p></o:p></span></span>
<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><b>- to
compose a survey of the current landscape of parallel
computing and supercomputing education in Europe with respect
to different universities and countries,</b><o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<b><span style="" lang="EN-US">- to prepare a set of
recommendations how to bring ideas of parallel computing and
supercomputing into higher educational systems of European
countries.</span></b><br>
<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p></span></font>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="" lang="EN-US">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! <br>
</span></font></p>
<p><font face="Calibri"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Let us know
about you decision <u><b>by March, 9, 2012 sending a brief
message to "wg-</b></u></span><u><b><span style=""
lang="EN-US">hpc-edu</span></b></u><span style=""
lang="EN-US"><u><b>@parallel.ru".</b></u><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<font face="Calibri"> </font><font face="Calibri"><span style=""
lang="EN-US">If you have any questions do not hesitate to
contact us: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:voevodin@parallel.ru">voevodin@parallel.ru</a>, <a
class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gergel@unn.ru">gergel@unn.ru</a>.<o:p></o:p></span>
<br>
<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><span style="" lang="EN-US"><o:p></o:p>Sincerely
Yours,<o:p></o:p></span> <br>
<br>
</font><font face="Calibri"><span style="" lang="EN-US">Prof.
Vladimir Voevodin, MSU and Prof. Victor Gergel, NNSU<o:p></o:p></span></font><br>
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