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TECHNICAL PROGRAM and ONLINE PROCEEDINGS of EduPar-12

 

8:15-8:20 Message from the chair
  Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA
8:20-9:10 keynote Session
  Transformation to Parallel Programming - Computer Science Education in China
  Hai Jin (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China)
  Abstract and Bio, Slides
9:10-10:10 Session I - Curricular Change and Adoption
  1. Engineering a New Curriculum: Experiences at Ohio University in Incorporating the IEEE-TCPP Curriculum Initiative during a Transition to Semesters
  David Juedes and Frank Drews (Ohio University, USA) (Download Paper)
  2. Experiences in Teaching a Specialty Multicore Computing Course
  Peter Strazdins (The Australian National University, Australia) (Download Paper)
  3. An Experience of Early Initiation to Parallelism in the Computing Engineering Degree at the University of Murcia, Spain
  Manuel E. Acacio, Javier Cuenca, Lorenzo Fernández, Ricardo Fernández-Pascual, Joaquín Cervera, Domingo Gimenez, M. Carmen Garrido, and Juan A. Sánchez (University of Murcia), José Guillén, Juan Alejandro Palomino, and María-Eugenia Requena (Murcia Supercomputing Centre, Spain) (Download Paper)
10:10-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:10 Session II - Novel Ways of Teaching
  4. Teaching by Example: Using Analogies and Live Coding Demonstrations to Teach Parallel Computing Concepts to Undergraduate Students
  Nasser Giacaman (The University of Auckland, New Zealand) (Download Paper)
  5. Distributed Systems with Wireless Sensor Networks
  Noemi Rodriguez (Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro) and Silvana Rossetto (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) (Download Paper)
  6. The Spanish Parallel Programming Contests and its use as an Educational Resource
  Francisco Almeida, La Laguna University, Javier Cuenca, Ricardo Fernández-Pascual, Domingo Gimenez, and Juan Alejandro Palomino Benito (University of Murcia, Spain) (Download Paper)
  7. Making Learning Parallel Processing Interesting
  Jie Liu, Yanwei Wu, and John Marsaglia (Western Oregon University, USA) (Download Paper)
  8. Simplifying Hands-On Teaching of Distributed Algorithms with SPLAY
  Etienne Rivière (University of Neuchatel, Switzerland) (Download Paper)
12:10-1:30 Lunch (provided)
1:30-3:10 Session III - Models for Incorporation
  9. Lessons Learned after the Introduction of Parallel and Distributed Computing Concepts into ECE Undergraduate Curricula at UTN-Bahía Blanca Argentina
  Javier Iparraguirre, Guillermo Friedrich, and Ricardo Coppo (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Bahía Blanca, Argentina) (Download Paper)
  10. Formal Methods for Surviving the Jungle of Heterogeneous Parallelism
  Ganesh Gopalakrishnan (University of Utah, USA) (Download Paper)
  11. Incorporating the NSF/TCPP Curriculum Recommendations in a Liberal Arts Setting
  Akshaye Dhawan (Ursinus College, USA) (Download Paper)
  12. CSinParallel and synergy for rapid incremental addition of PDC into CS curricula
  Richard Brown (St. Olaf College, USA) and Elizabeth Shoop (Macalester College, USA) (Download Paper)
  13. Courses in High-Performance Computing for Scientists and Engineers
  Richard Vuduc, Kenneth Czechowski, Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, and Jee Whan Choi (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)  (Download Paper) 
3:10-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-4:15 Panel: NSF/TCPP Curriculum on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Undergraduates
  Coordinator: Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA
  Curriculum Working Group and Panelists:  
Chtchelkanova, Almadena (NSF), Das, Sajal (University of Texas at Arlington), Das, Chita (Penn State), Dehne, Frank (Carleton University, Canada), Gouda, Mohamed (University of Texas, Austin, NSF), Gupta, Anshul (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Jaja, Joseph (University of Maryland), Kant, Krishna (NSF, Intel), La Salle, Anita (NSF), LeBlanc, Richard (Seattle University), Lumsdaine, Andrew (Indiana University), Padua, David (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Parashar, Manish (Rutgers), Prasad, Sushil (Georgia State University), Prasanna, Viktor (University of Southern California), Robert, Yves (INRIA, France), Rosenberg, Arnold (Northeastern University), Sahni, Sartaj (University of Florida), Shirazi, Behrooz (Washington State University), Sussman, Alan (University of Maryland), Weems, Chip (University of Massachusetts), and Wu, Jie (Temple University)
  Committee Report
4:15-6:00 Poster Session - Early Adoption Reports on NSF/TCPP Curriculum and Miscellaneous
  1. An ontology to support language agnostic understanding of parallel complexities within source code
  Celina Berg and Yvonne Coady (University of Victoria, Canada) (Download Paper)
  2. Basic parallel and distributed computing curriculum
  Claude Tadonki (Mines ParisTech, France)  (Download Paper)
  3. An experience of early initiation to parallelism in the Computing Engineering Degree at the University of Murcia, Spain
  Manuel E. Acacio, Javier Cuenca, Lorenzo Fernández, Ricardo Fernández-Pascual, Joaquín Cervera, Domingo Gimenez, M. Carmen Garrido, and Juan A. Sánchez (University of Murcia), José Guillén, Juan Alejandro Palomino, and María-Eugenia Requena (Murcia Supercomputing Centre, Spain)  (Download Paper)
  "4. Introducing PDC Topics Early: Successfully Implementing the TCPP Curriculum in CS1 and CS2"
  Jon Preston and Venu Dasigi (SPSU, USA)  (Download Paper)
  "5. Early Adoption of Parallel Programming Concepts in Computer Science II and Data Structure Curriculum"
  Bernard Chen and Sinan Kockara (University of Central Arkansas,USA)  (Download Paper)
  6. TCPP Early Adopter Report for Fall 2011
  Baochuan Lu and Tim Declue (Southwest Baptist Unversity, USA)  (Download Paper)
  7. Early Adoption of TCPP Curriculum Initiative at UPRM
  Wilson Rivera (University of Puerto Rico, USA)  (Download Paper)
  8. Early Adoption Report, Loyola University Chicago
  Konstantin Laufer, Chandra Sekharan, and George K.Thiruvathukal (Loyola University Chicago, USA)  (Download Paper)
  9. Early Adopter: Parallel Processing for Computer Engineering Concentration in Electrical Engineering Undergraduate Program
  Yudi Gondokaryono, Kusprasapta Mutijarsa, and Ary Setijadi Prihatmanto (Institut Teknologi Bandung, Indonesia)  (Download Paper)
  10. Lessons Learned in the Process of Teaching Parallel and Distributed Computing Concepts
  Javier Iparraguirre, Guillermo Friedrich, and Ricardo Coppo (Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional Bahía Blanca, Argentina)  (Download Paper)
  11. Early Adoption of NSF/TCPP PDC Curriculum at Texas Tech University
  Yong Chen, Yu Zhuang, and Noe Lopez-Benitez (Texas Tech University, USA)  (Download Paper)
  12. Programming Distributed Systems: Concurrency and Parallelism almost Everywhere
  Fernando G. Tinetti (Fac. de Informática, UNLP", Argentina)  (Download Paper)
  13. Multiprocessor Programming in the Undergraduate Program NSF/TCPP Curriculum: 2nd Year of Early Adoption at the University of Central Florida
  Damian Dechev and Narsingh Deo (University of Central Flordia, USA)  (Download Paper)
  14. Parallel and Distributed Curriculum in Information Technology at A Historically Black College and University
  Yili Tseng (NC A & T State University, USA)  (Download Paper)
  15. Integrating the NSF/TCPP Core Curriculum into the CSinParallel Module Development Project
  Richard Brown (St. Olaf College, USA) and Elizabeth Shoop (Macalester College, USA)  (Download Paper)
  16. Experiences in adopting the NSF/TCPP Curriculum Recommendations in a Liberal Arts Setting
  Akshaye Dhawan (Ursinus College, USA)  (Download Paper)
  17. Formal Methods for Parallelism and Concurrency
  Ganesh Gopalakrishnan (University of Utah, USA)  (Download Paper)
  18. Experiences in teaching parallel and distributed computing at UFCG
  Andrey Brito (UFCG, Brazil)  (Download Paper)
  19. No Undergraduate Left Behind
  Greg Byrd, Alex Dean, Eric Rotenberg, Yan Solihin, James Tuck and Huiyang Zhou (North Carolina State University, USA)  (Download Paper)
  20. NSF/TCPP Core Curriculum Early Adopter Poster Plan: Introduce Parallel and Distributed Computing to Minority Undergraduates
  Lei Huang and Yonggao Yang (Prairie View A&M University, USA)  (Download Abstract, Poster)
  21. Introducing Parallel and Distributed Computing Topics as an Early Adopters
  Jie Liu, Yanwei Wu, and John Marsaglia (Western Oregon University, USA)  (Download Abstract, Poster)
  22. Experiences at Ohio University in Incorporating the IEEE-TCPP Cur riculum Initiative during a Transition to Semesters
  David Juedes and Frank Drews (Ohio University, USA)  (Download Paper)
  23. Early Adoption of the NSF/TCPP Curriculum
  Hwajung Lee and Authur Carter (Radford University, USA)  (Download Abstract, Poster)
  24. Incorporating PDC Topics throughout the Undergraduate Computer Science Curriculum
  Anu Bourgeois and Yi Pan (Georgia State University, USA)  (Download Abstract)
  25. Parallel and Distributed Computing in Undergraduate Bioinformatics Course
  Jianxin Wang, Gang Chen, Min Li, and Yi Pan (Central South University, China)  (Download Abstract, Poster)
  26. Curriculum Initiative on Parallel and Distributed Computing at the University of Western Ontario
  Marc Moreno Maza, Mark Daley, Mike Katchabaw and Hanan Lutfiyya (Western University, Ontario, Canada )  (Download Abstract, Poster)