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EduPar-15 Technical Program

EduPar-15 Workshop

 

NSF/TCPP Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education (EduPar-15) Program

 

 

 

8:30am-8:35am Message from the Program Chair
    Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University
8:35am-9:30am Keynote Session
    Session Chair: Andrew Lumsdaine
      Teaching Data Science: Curriculum and Online Technology
    Geoffrey Charles Fox, Indiana University
    (presentation slides)

9:30am-10:00am

Coffee Break and Posters
    All posters available

10:00am-12:00pm Session I: Course Design
    Session Chair: Sushil Prasad
 10:00am-11:20am Regular talks (20 mins each)
    Teaching High Performance Computing and Simulations at secondary schools in the German state of Baden
    Württemberg Ruediger Berlich, Joerg Hilpert, Almut Zwölfer, Jochen Barwind, Peter Lürßen
    (paper, slides)
   The active classroom: students and instructors parallel programming in parallel
    Nasser Giacaman, Simar Kalra, Oliver Sinnen
    (paper, slides)
   Introducing Tetra: An Educational Parallel Programming System
    Ian Finlayson, Jerome Mueller, Shehan Rajapakse, Daniel Easterling
    (paper, slides)
   Patternlets: A Teaching Tool for Introducing Students to Parallel Design Patterns
    Joel Adams
    (paper, slides)
 11:20am-11:35am Q&A Speaker's Panel

 11:35am-12:00am

Posters presentations: Posters Group 1     

   EA Poster:Promoting Teaching Effectiveness and Cultivating Interests in Parallel and Distributed Computing
    Michelle Zhu, Shahram Rahimi and Shahriar Rahimi
    (paper)
   EA Poster: Asymptotic Analysis of Parallel Algorithms: an Experimental Approach
    Viraj Kumar and Mohammad Ghazanfar
    (paper, slides)
   EA Poster: Extending parallel programming education beyond the von Neumann architecture
    Nikhil Shekhawat and Sumit Jha
    (paper, poster )
   EA Poster: Flipping a parallel programming class
    David Bunde
    (paper)
   EA Poster: Unified Assessment of Skills in Parallel and Distributed Computing
    Victor Gergel, Iosif Meyerov and Alexander Sysoyev
    (paper)

 

12:00pm-1:30pm

 

Lunch Break and Posters

1:30pm - 3:30pm Session II: Methods and Tools
    Session Chair: Andrew Lumsdaine
    1:30pm-2:30pm Regular talks (20 mins each)
An Research-Oriented Advanced Multicore Architecture Course
    Julio Sahuquillo, Salvador Petit, Vicent Selfa, Maria Engracia Gómez
    (paper, slides)
   Updating an Introductory Performance Course with PDC
    Karen L. Karavanic, Daniel Leblanc
    (paper)
   Novelties in Teaching High Performance Computing
    Jawwad Shamsi, Nourman Durrani, Nadeem Kafi
    (paper, slides)
    2:30pm-2:45pm Q&A Speaker's Panel

    2:45pm-3:30pm

Posters presentations: Posters Group 2     

   EA Poster: Research-oriented Teaching of PDC Topics in Integration with Software Engineering and Computer Networks Courses
    Sandeep Kumar and Kuldeep Kumar
    (paper, poster,slides)
   EA Poster: Parallel Places: Introducing Parallel Programming in Geographical Information Science
    Shannon Kobs Nawotniak
    (paper,poster)
   EA Poster: Teaching High Performance Computing with a Practical Approach
    Jawwad Shamsi, Nouman M Durrani, Areeb Moin and Zaeem Baig
    (paper)
   EA Poster: Early Adoption Efforts at Portland State University
    Karen L. Karavanic
    (poster)
   EA Poster: Analysis and Lesson Learned in Teaching Parallel and Distributed Computing for Undergraduate Computer Science Course at Universiti Putra Malaysia
    Nor Asilah Wati Abdul Hamid and Masnida Hussin
    (paper, poster)

 

3:30pm-4:00pm

 

Coffee break and Posters
4:00pm-6:00pm Session III: Curriculum Integration
     4:00pm-5:00pm Regular talks (20 mins each)
    
   Incorporating PDC Modules into Computer Science Courses at Jackson State University
    Ali Abu El Humos, Sungbum Hong, Jacqueline Jackson, Xuejun Liang,Tzusheng Pei, Bernard Aldrich
    (paper, slides)
   Integrating Parallel and Distributed Computing Topics into Undergraduate CS Curriculum at UESTC
    Guoming Lu, Jie Xu, Jieyan Liu, Bo Dai, Shenglin Gui, Siyu Zhan
    (paper, poster, slides)
   Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Computing for Software Engineering Undergraduates
    Ali Ebnenasir, Jean Mayo
    (paper, slides)
     5:00pm-5:15pm Q&A Speaker's Panel

     5:15pm-6:00pm

Posters presentations: Posters Group 3     

   EA Poster: NSF/TCPP Early Adopter Experience at Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology Computer Science and Technology Department
    Shanyu Wu, Yunhe Li and Feng
    (paper)
   EA Poster: Integrating Parallel Distributed Computing Topics Throughout Undergraduate CS Curriculum: A Work in Progress
    Sheikh Ghafoor and Mike Rogers
    (paper, poster)
   EA Poster - Parallel and Distributed Computing Curriculum at College of Staten Island
    Yumei Huo and Feng Gu
    (paper)
   Integrating Concepts from Parallel and Distributed Computing Into a Small Liberal Arts Undergraduate College
    Rajesh Prasad
    (paper)
   Some Parallel and Distributed Computing Topics at Undergraduate Level of Information Technology
    Hiren Kumar Deva Sarma
    (paper)
   EA Poster submitting-Integrating Parallel and Distributed Computing Topics into an Undergraduate CS Curriculum at UESTC
    Guoming Lu
    (paper, slides)
   EA poster: Incorporating PDC Modules into Computer Science Courses at Jackson State University
    Ali Abu El Humos, Sungbum Hong, Jacqueline Jackson, Xuejun Liang, Tzusheng Pei and Bernard Aldrich Jr
    (paper, poster)