Welcome To TCPP Initiative On Curriculum Standards On Parallel & Distributed Computing.

Curriculum Standards for Parallel and Distributed Computing

There is an urgent need for curricular guidance on parallel and distributed computing. This need emanates both from rapid technological changes and from mass marketing of multicores and general-purpose graphics processing units. Educators struggle to decide the right balance between theory and practice, and to choose from the diverse set of models of computation, languages, software and hardware platforms, and tools. There are other stakeholders including students, employers, researchers, authors, developers, users, and industry who all can benefit from periodic standards in curriculum at various levels and in different courses which are impacted from parallel and distributed computing.

TCPP, with NSF funding, is organizing a Planning Workshop to explore the state of curriculum in parallel and distributed education, assess the needs, and provide action plan and recommend mechanisms for how best to address the curricular needs in short and long term. The planning workshop and its related set of activities will draw experts from various stakeholders, and engage the parallel and distributed computing community as providers of information on the current state of practice as well as consumers and evaluator of its results.

The main benefit would be to students in preparation for college and graduate schools, professional and research career, and re-training. These curricular guidance and its trajectory, along with their periodic feedback and other evaluation data on their adoption and use will also help steer companies hiring students and interns, hardware and software vendors, and, of course, the authors and researchers.

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