Early Adopters of Curriculum Initiative in Parallel and Distributed Computing at EduPar-12

并行和分布式计算（PDC）技术渗透到用户的日常生活中，使得计算机科学家和工程师必须为消费者提供快速变化但有效、高效和可靠的技术。这表明迫切需要在教育结构的各个层面传授PDC技术的广泛技能。然而，计算机技术的快速变化和研究的进步给教育工作者带来了挑战，他们不知道在任何一个学期该教什么。雇主也面临着类似的挑战，即什么是基本专业知识。在这种背景下，一个工作组开始着手为计算机科学和计算机工程本科生制定PDC课程指南，特别强调确定一个核心课程，代表每个毕业生应该了解的PDC知识。整个2010年，工作组审议了各种主题和分主题，规定了预期的最低覆盖水平和期望的学习成果；它采用布鲁姆的分类作为媒介来表达一个主题所需的专业知识水平。核心课程的初步版本于2010年12月发布（http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~tcpp/curriculum/index.php）。评估我们指导方针快照的主要机制是早期采用者竞赛，由NSF和Intel授予。大约有40多家早期采用这一课程的机构正在试用这一课程。2011年5月，我们在安克雷奇组织了一次研讨会，将早期采用者和其他对PDC教育感兴趣的人聚集在一起，主要是为了接收采用者的反馈，同时也为了激发对课程和其他教育问题的讨论。首届EduPar研讨会——IPDPS的首个此类研讨会，专注于教育问题——取得了巨大的成功。这导致在这笔赠款的支持下，正在上海IPDPS-12组织一个后续的edupar12讲习班。拟议的课程目前正在修订中，准备正式发布。

The penetration of parallel and distributed computing (PDC) technology into the daily lives of users has made it imperative that computer scientists and engineers provide rapidly changing, but yet effective, efficient and reliable technology to consumers. This points to the urgent need for imparting a broad-based skill set in PDC technology at various levels in the educational fabric. However, the rapid change in computing technology and research advances challenge educators in knowing what to teach in any given semester. Employers face similar challenges regarding what constitutes basic expertise. In this context, a working group has taken up the challenge of developing PDC curricular guidelines for Computer Science and Computer Engineering undergraduates, with particular emphasis on identifying a core curriculum that represents what every graduate should know about PDC. Throughout 2010, the working group has deliberated upon various topics and subtopics, specifying both the expected minimum level of coverage and the desired learning outcomes; it employed Bloom's classification as the medium for expressing the desired level of expertise on a topic. A preliminary version of the core curriculum was released in Dec, 2010 (http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~tcpp/curriculum/index.php). A major mechanism for evaluating a snapshot of our guidelines is the Early Adopter competition, with grants from NSF and Intel. About four dozen early-adopter institutions are trying out this curriculum. We organized a workshop in Anchorage, May 2011, to bring together the early adopters and others interested in PDC education, primarily to receive the feedback from the Adopters, but also to stimulate discussion of curricular and other educational issues. This inaugural EduPar workshop - the first of its kind at IPDPS, being focused on educational matters - was a great success. This has led to a follow up EduPar-12 workshop that is being organized at IPDPS-12 in Shanghai with the support of this grant. The proposed curriculum is being revised currently for a formal released.