Preparing Students and Teachers for Large-Scale Cluster Computing

当前和未来的计算机专业人员在毕业后进入劳动力市场时，对支持网络规模的数据密集型计算的软件应用程序的开发和维护的职业准备不足，这是一个重要的和日益增长的担忧。大规模集群计算是对我国日益增长的高可用性、容错、分散和超大数据检索需求的响应。考虑到工程和其他相关的限制，这些资源的最佳利用将始终是计算机专业毕业生以及为他们提供培训的学院和大学所关注的问题。这个领域需要工程和计算机学科交叉领域的专业知识。这个为期2.5天的大规模集群计算研讨会为本科教学机构提供了材料和课程支持。这个最初的研讨会将于2008年7月16日至18日举行，将邀请计算机科学和软件工程方面的教授参加华盛顿大学的一个研讨会，以前在那里成功举办过这样的课程。其目标是鼓励其他机构将部分或全部的课程材料和倡议纳入他们的课程，从而为更多的计算机毕业生在网络规模的数据密集型计算领域的职业生涯做好准备。本次研讨会的明确目标是接触到大量不同类型的计算机教授，以及他们的学生，以增加大学毕业生能够在网格和云计算等领域进入他们的职业生涯的可能性，并能够在现在和整个职业生涯中尽可能快速有效地做出贡献。我们希望这次研讨会能够为未来类似的事件提供信息，以进一步增加影响。

There is a significant and growing concern that current and future computing professionals, as they enter the workforce upon graduation, are under-prepared for careers in the development and maintenance of software applications that support web-scale data intensive computing. Large scale cluster computing is a response to the increasing demands for high availability, fault tolerant, decentralized, and very large data retrieval needs in our country. Given the engineering and other constraints involved, optimal utilization of such resources will always be a concern for computing graduates, and thus for the colleges and universities that prepare them. This field requires expertise in a cross-section of engineering and computing disciplines.This 2.5 day workshop in large-scale cluster computing provides material and curricular support for undergraduate teaching institutions. This initial workshop, to be conducted July 16-18, 2008, will invite professors in computer science and software engineering to a workshop at the University of Washington, where such a course has previously been conducted successfully. The goal is to encourage other institutions to adopt some or all of the curricular materials and initiatives into their courses, thus preparing a greater number of computing graduates for careers in web-scale data intensive computing.The explicit goal of this workshop is to reach a large and diverse of group of computing professors, and in turn their students, to increase the likelihood that university graduates are able to step into their careers in such fields as grid and cloud computing and be able to contribute as quickly and effectively as possible now and throughout their careers. We expect this workshop to inform future similar events to further increase the impacts.