A Planning Workshop on Curriculum Standards for Parallel and Distributed Computing

该奖项支持一个研讨会，探讨并行和分布式计算教育和课程的状态，评估并行和分布式计算领域的国家教育需求，并提供行动计划和建议机制，以最好地满足短期和长期的课程需求。规划讲习班及其相关的一系列活动将吸引来自各利益攸关方的专家，并使并行和分布式计算界作为有关当前实践状况的信息提供者以及其结果的消费者和评估者参与进来。有一个迫切需要的并行和分布式计算的课程指导。这种需求既源于快速的技术变革，也源于多核和通用图形处理器的大规模销售。教育工作者努力确定理论和实践之间的正确平衡，并从计算，语言，软件和硬件平台以及工具的各种模型中进行选择。在这个领域有许多利益相关者，包括教师和学生，雇主，研究人员，作者，开发人员，用户和行业，所有人都可以受益于受并行和分布式计算影响的各级课程和不同课程中的标准。研讨会的目标是让所有利益相关者专家共同努力，每半年提供指导，以调整与并行和分布式计算有关的各种课程和模块的标准课程。社区可以将其用于教学，制作课程材料，教科书和教程，设置认证和考试标准，以及创建编程环境和工具。 研讨会涉及来自所有利益相关群体的专家之间的合作，以探讨需求和当前的问题，评估跨课程并行处理教育的状况，并制定长期计划，建立机制，以应对新的课程挑战。两个预期的成果是在IEEE国际并行和分布式处理研讨会（IPDPS），IEEE的并行处理（TCPP）的计算机社会技术委员会旗舰会议（2010年4月在亚特兰大举行）和TCPP的标准委员会课程的形成年度课程研讨会。

This award supports a workshop to explore the state of parallel and distributed computing education and curricula, assess national education needs in the area of parallel and distributed computing, and provide action plans and recommend mechanisms for how best to address curricular needs in short and long term. The planning workshop and its related set of activities will draw experts from various stakeholders, and engage the parallel and distributed computing community as providers of information on the current state of practice as well as consumers and evaluator of its results. There is an urgent need for curricular guidance on parallel and distributed computing. This need emanates both from rapid technological changes and from mass marketing of multicores and general-purpose graphics processing units. Educators struggle to determine the right balance between theory and practice, and to choose from the diverse set of models of computation, languages, software and hardware platforms, and tools. There are many stakeholders in this domain, including faculty and students, employers, researchers, authors, developers, users, and industry, all who can benefit from standards in curricula at various levels and in different courses which are impacted by parallel and distributed computing.The goal of the workshop is to involve all stakeholder experts working together and annually/biannually providing guidance on restructuring standard curricula across various courses and modules related to parallel and distributed computing. The community may employ these for teaching, for producing course material, textbooks and tutorials, setting standards for certifications and exams, and for creating programming environments and tools. The workshop involves collaboration among experts from all stakeholder groups to explore the needs and current problems, assess the state of parallel processing education across curricula, and lay out long term plans for setting up mechanisms to meet new curricular challenges. Two outcomes expected are an annual curricular workshop at the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS), the IEEE's Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) flagship conference (2010 being held in Atlanta in April) and formation of TCPP's Standards Committee on Curriculum.