Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Conceptualization: Planning a Sustainable Ecosystem for Incorporating Parallel and Distributed Computing into Undergraduate Education

在这个多核机器、gpu、云服务、大数据、机器学习和物联网普及的时代，学院迫切需要创建一个可持续的、学科范围的生态系统，将并行和分布式计算（PDC）纳入本科计算课程。这样的机构将支持教育工作者、学生和其他涉众组成的社区，其目标是培养一支准备好迎接使用当前和未来计算结构的挑战的劳动力队伍。研究人员提出了这样一个研究所（iPDC）的规划，它可以帮助消除顺序计算范式的长期障碍，这样，类似于面向对象范式的建立，PDC范式自然地集成到计算机科学（CS）和计算机工程（CE）课程中，这些课程由2013年ACM/IEEE计算机科学课程推荐，现在由ABET推荐。通过资助和未资助的合作者网络，与服务于代表性不足群体的机构的讲师建立联系，以及外展努力，该项目将通过四次结构良好的规划研讨会、每周电话会议、反馈和传播活动，与利益相关者社区积极接触，以制定研究所的关键属性。通过为下一代从业者和研究人员提供必要的技能和知识来有效地利用PDC系统，扩大PDC教育将进一步推动科学和工程领域的进步，这些领域越来越依赖于PDC系统。课程标准、采用和传播活动将具有协同的国际组成部分。总的来说，这个项目将促进社区内丰富的思想交流。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

In this era of pervasive multicore machines, GPUs, cloud services, big data, machine learning, and the Internet of Things, there is a critical need for an institute to create a sustainable, discipline-wide ecosystem for incorporating parallel and distributed computing (PDC) into undergraduate computing curricula. Such an institute would support the community of educators, students, and other stakeholders, with the goal of developing a workforce that is ready to meet the challenges of working with current and future computing fabrics. The investigators propose planning for such an institute (iPDC) that can help eliminate the longstanding barrier of the sequential computing paradigm such that, analogous to the establishment of the object oriented paradigm, the PDC paradigm is naturally integrated into Computer Science (CS) and Computer Engineering (CE) curricula across various institutions as recommended by the 2013 ACM/IEEE Computer Science Curricula and now by ABET.Through the network of funded and unfunded collaborators, established contacts with instructors at institutions serving underrepresented groups, and outreach efforts, the project will robustly engage with stakeholder communities through four well-structured planning workshops, weekly teleconferences, and feedback and dissemination activities to formulate the key attributes of the institute.Broadening PDC education will further enable advances in science and engineering, which depend increasingly on PDC systems, by providing the next generation of practitioners and researchers with the necessary skills and knowledge to effectively exploit them. The curriculum standards, adoption, and dissemination activities will have synergistic international components. Overall, this project will facilitate a rich exchange of ideas within the community.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.