Paul Steinberg writes on Intel Software Network blog to stop teaching sequential programming and start parallel programming only.
“All major manufactures of CPUs, GPUs and ASICs have moved to a many core design, yet universities and colleges are not training engineers in the parallel and concurrent disciplines needed to efficiently program on such systems. To make matters worse, many of the computer science and engineering faculty are often not yet informed enough to effectively teach the subject, even were it to be offered. The sad fact is that unless a more vigorous program of parallel computing is inserted into the curriculum, most engineering and computer science graduates will not have the skills to provide competitive advantage on multicore and many core platforms.”
