by John E. West, for HPCwire
Earlier this month Intel announced it was helping lead a parallel programming experience for high school students. The three-day “Clubhouse Parallel Universe Boot-Camp” was held at Brooklyn Technical High School (BTHS). This idea is consistent with Intel’s overall drive to help develop the expertise that applications developers — and ultimately users — need to get the most out of the company’s chips. There is a clear business driver here, but in this case, the business driver lines up well with the broader societal goals of enabling users and developers to do more with technology.

The project started with Jeffrey Birnbaum from the Bank of America. Birnbaum has lots of experience working on lock-free and parallel programming techniques for “low latency high throughput messaging systems” of the kind you find in finance. Birnbaum’s idea started with interactions he had with a high school student interested in parallel programming, and he saw an opportunity to start at the high school level to teach students to “think parallel.”

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