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EduPar-21: Technical Program

EduPar-21 Technical Program
May 17, 2021

Workshop presentations will be presented live using the system shared with IPDPS. Attendees to the workshop must register for IPDPS 2021. Early rates are available until May 14. See here for registration information.  


Detailed Technical Program Schedule and Links:

*note: times are in the Portland, OR, USA time zone (PDT or UTC-7)
Link back to CFP
Link to Zoom Meeting

 

      Time*      

Event

Presenters

9:15-9:30

Welcome and on-line logistics

Sushil Prasad, Workshop Chair (UT-San Antonio)

David Bunde, Program Chair (Knox College)
David Brown, Program Vice Chair (Elmhurst University)
(introduction, curriculumn update)

9:30-10:30

Keynote

 

Session Chair:
Chip Weems

 

Q&A Chair:
David Bunde

David Albonesi (Cornell University)
Using Smartphones to Teach Parallelism to First Year Students

 

10:30-10:45

Break

 

10:45-11:35

Paper Session 1:
Important topics

 

Session Chair:
David Brown

 

Q&A Associate: 
David Bunde

Let's Put the Memory Model Front and Center When Teaching Parallel Programming in C++, Jiri Dokulil

(paper, slides)

 

Teaching Complex Scheduling Algorithms, Sascha Hunold, Bartłomiej Przybylski

(paper)

11:35-12:30

Lunch

 

12:30-12:55

Paper Session 2: Curricula

 

Session Chair:
Joel Adams

 

 

Q&A Associate:
Tia Newhall

ABET Accreditation: A Way Forward for PDC Education, Sherif G. Aly, Haidar Harmanani, Rajendra K. Raj, Sanaa Sharafeddine

(paper, slides)

 

12:55-1:25

Community announcements

Various
(Contact David Bunde (dbunde@knox.edu) to participate) (pdf)

1:25-1:35

Break

 

1:35-2:05

TCPP Curriculum Update

Sushil Prasad, Chip Weems, Alan Sussman, R. (Vaidy) Vaidyanathan, Anshul Gupta, and Sheikh Ghafoor,
Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing Curriculum Development and Educational Resources (CDER)

2:05-2:35

Poster Session

PARCSIM: a Learning Support Tool for Parallel Programming Students. Javier Cuenca, Jesús Cámara, José-Carlos Cano, Mariano Saura-Sánchez

 

Evaluation of web-based tools for beginners in AVX and MPI parallel programming education. Akiyoshi Wakatani, Toshiyuki Maeda

 

Teaching Distributed Systems by Teaching Cryptocurrency: Challenge, Motivation, and Curriculum Design. Lewis Tseng

2:35-2:45

Break

 

2:45-3:35

Paper session 3:  Resources and Modules

 

Session Chair:

Anshul Gupta

 

Q&A Associate:
Henry Gabb

Teaching PDC in the Time of COVID: Hands-on Materials for Remote Learning, Joel C. Adams, Richard Brown, Suzanne J. Matthews, Elizabeth Shoop

(paper, slides)

 

Data-Intensive Computing Modules for Teaching Parallel and Distributed Computing, Michael Gowanlock, Benoit Gallet

(paper, slides)

3:35-3:50

Workshop Wrap-up Announcements

Sushil Prasad, Workshop Chair