Collaborative Research: Teaching Multicore and Many-Core Programming at a Higher Level of Abstraction

协作研究：在更高抽象层次上教授多核和众核编程

• 批准号: 1141005
• 负责人: Clayton Ferner
• 金额: $ 9.45万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Wilmington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-08-15 至 2016-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1141005&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Teaching; Multicore; Many

The project is addressing the need to train Computer Science undergraduate students in programming computer systems with multiple execution cores. Virtually all computer systems today have multiple cores and the trend is to have increasing numbers of cores, increasing the complexity of effectively using such computers. This project is exploring structured higher-level approaches, which begins with decomposing problems into widely known computational patterns and using higher-level tools to create programs. The work is drawing upon recent research techniques on pattern programming and bringing these techniques into the undergraduate curriculum. The educational materials are being developed at two universities, University of North Carolina Charlotte and University of North Carolina Wilmington and are being taught across the state of North Carolina on a televideo network reaching all the state universities and many private universities. By design, this project is involving two principal universities, one comprehensive university with a strong undergraduate commitment (University of North Carolina Wilmington) and one research-oriented school (University of North Carolina Charlotte) and many other institutions through televideo distance learning. Two minority-serving institutions, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and Winston-Salem State University, are directly participating in the study. Two workshops are being presented for educators, one in Charlotte North Carolina and one in Washington DC at the headquarters of the Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA).

该项目旨在满足培训计算机科学本科生对具有多个执行核心的计算机系统进行编程的需求。事实上，当今所有的计算机系统都具有多个核，并且趋势是具有越来越多的核，从而增加了有效使用这种计算机的复杂性。这个项目正在探索结构化的高级方法，它首先将问题分解为众所周知的计算模式，并使用高级工具来创建程序。这项工作是借鉴最近的研究技术模式编程，并将这些技术纳入本科课程。这些教材正在北卡罗来纳州夏洛特大学和北卡罗来纳州威尔明顿大学这两所大学编写，并通过电视网络在整个北卡罗来纳州向所有州立大学和许多私立大学讲授。按照设计，这一项目涉及两所主要大学，一所是本科生人数较多的综合性大学（北卡罗来纳州威尔明顿大学），一所是研究型学校（北卡罗来纳州夏洛特大学），以及通过电视录像远程学习的许多其他机构。北卡罗来纳州农业和技术州立大学和温斯顿-塞勒姆州立大学这两所为少数群体服务的机构直接参与了这项研究。为教育工作者举办了两个讲习班，一个在夏洛特北卡罗来纳州，另一个在华盛顿特区东南大学研究协会（SURA）总部。