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

该项目旨在培养计算机科学专业的本科生对具有多个执行核心的计算机系统进行编程的能力。实际上，今天所有的计算机系统都有多个核心，而且其趋势是拥有越来越多的核心，从而增加了有效使用这些计算机的复杂性。该项目正在探索结构化的高级方法，它首先将问题分解为广为人知的计算模式，并使用高级工具创建程序。这项工作借鉴了模式编程的最新研究技术，并将这些技术引入了本科课程。这些教材是由北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校和北卡罗来纳大学威尔明顿分校两所大学开发的，并通过一个电视网络在北卡罗来纳州各地教授，覆盖所有州立大学和许多私立大学。根据设计，该项目涉及两所主要大学，一所综合性大学（北卡罗来纳大学威尔明顿分校）和一所研究型学校（北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校），以及许多其他通过电视远程学习的机构。北卡罗来纳州农业技术大学和温斯顿-塞勒姆州立大学这两所为少数族裔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，一个在北卡罗来纳州的夏洛特，另一个在华盛顿特区东南大学研究协会（SURA）的总部。

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).