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

合作研究：网络培训：概念化：规划可持续生态系统，将并行和分布式计算纳入本科教育

• 批准号: 1924023
• 负责人: Charles Weems
• 金额: $ 3.18万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2021-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1924023&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CyberTraining; Conceptualization; Planning

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.

在这个普遍存在的多功能机器，GPU，云服务，大数据，机器学习和物联网的时代，研究所对于创建可持续的，良好的范围内的生态系统迫切需要将并行和分布式计算（PDC）纳入本科计算。这样的研究所将支持教育工作者，学生和其他利益相关者的社区，其目的是开发一个劳动力，该劳动力准备应对当前和未来的计算织物的挑战。调查人员建议对这样一个研究所（IPDC）进行计划，以帮助消除顺序计算范式的长期障碍，以便类似于以对象为导向的范式的建立，PDC范式自然地集成到计算机科学（CS）和计算机工程（CE）的架构中，该机构是策划2013 ACM/IEEE EEE 3资助和无资金合作者的网络，与服务不足的群体服务的机构的讲师建立了联系，以及宣传工作，该项目将通过四个良好的计划讲习班，每周的电信计划，以及反馈和发动机的依赖性，以进一步发展依赖于Institution。 PDC系统通过为下一代从业人员和研究人员提供必要的技能和知识来有效利用它们。课程标准，采用和传播活动将具有协同的国际组成部分。总体而言，该项目将促进社区内的丰富思想交流。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评论标准来评估值得支持的。