The course served as an introductory course in parallel programming. It offered a series of lectures on parallel programming concepts as well as a group project providing hands-on experience with parallel programming. The course was designed to develop an understanding of:
* Fundamental design philosophies that multicore architectures address.
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MIT researchers have developed software that makes computer simulations of physical systems run much more efficiently on so-called multicore chips. In experiments involving chips with 24 separate cores — or processors — simulations of fluid flows were at least 50 percent more efficient with the new software than they were with conventional software. And that [...]

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Programmers with little or no exposure to parallelism have an opportunity to learn about multicore programming at the UPCRC Illinois Summer School to be held July 19-23, 2010 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The week-long, intensive workshop will provide a solid foundation in the fundamentals of multicore programming, offer hands-on experience with the use [...]

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American computer researchers say they have developed new software which makes programming of multi-processor machines much easier.
“With older, single-processor systems, computers behave exactly the same way as long as you give the same commands. Today’s computers are non-deterministic,” says Luis Ceze, computer science and engineering prof at the University of Washington, Washington. “Even if you [...]

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NVIDIA Corp. announced today that it has recognized the University of Maryland as a CUDA Center of Excellence, placing it in an elite grouping of 9 other universities and research organizations worldwide. The university was selected for its pioneering use of GPU computing and the CUDA programming model across research and teaching efforts within multiple [...]

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University researchers have proposed a new power management technique that they say significantly reduces energy consumption without negatively impacting the reliability of the system. The scheme, dubbed shared recovery technique, was the subject of a paper presented at the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) Monday (Nov. 2) by Baoxian Zhao, a computer science graduate [...]

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Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Intel Labs Pittsburgh (ILP) have combined low-power, embedded processors typically used in netbooks with flash memory to create a server architecture that is fast, but far more energy efficient for data-intensive applications than the systems now used by major Internet services.
An experimental computing cluster based on this so-called Fast [...]

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Professor Pierre Boulanger at University of Alberta is offering a course on Programming multicore architectures. MulticoreInfo is honored to be a part of class resources of this course.
From the Professor’s website, the course description is as follows:
“This course is intended to give students an understanding of multi-core architectures and parallel programming models. Student will [...]

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Prof. David A. Wood compiled a reading list for his Fall 2009, “Programming Current and Future Multicore Processors” course at University of Wisconsin, Madison. It has many papers and articles related to multicore programming. Here is the list of topics.
Introduction
Multicore processors
Pthreads
Locking and Threads
OpenMP
Cilk/TBB
Serialization Sets
MapReduce
Transactional Memory
Reading List
Thanks to Prof. Wood, the course website also has the [...]

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Researchers have developed a ‘hybrid microchip’ that could advance electronics beyond the limits of Moore’s Law. According to Moore’s Law, the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles every two years, leading to an exponential improvement in electronics. However, as devices get smaller, it is increasingly difficult for manufacturers to continue the trend on [...]

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By Antone Gonsalves
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing a faster processor without having to shrink the size of its circuitry, a technique used by today’s chip makers.
MIT’s advancement in chip-making, which involves combining two semiconductor materials into a single hybrid microchip, is important because today’s manufacturers will eventually hit a limit on [...]

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For over a decade, materials researchers have sought a ferroelectric material that could work in flash-sized bit cells that retain information for as long as a decade–the base requirement for nonvolatile memories.
Researchers at Yale University and the Semiconductor Research Corp. (SRC) claim that ferroelectrics are more appropriate for replacing DRAM than flash. Current DRAM technology [...]

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Graduate students — from various disciplines and institutions across the country — are improving their multicore programming skills this week during a summer school course offered by the Great Lakes Consortium’s Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering.
High-definition streaming video enables students to participate in the course, “Many-Core Programming for Science and Engineering Applications,” from [...]

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Here are the slides from a talk at MIT in April 2009 by Guy Steele, Fellow at Sun Microsystems Labs. The title of the talk is The Future of Parallel: What’s a Programmer to Do?”. The talk was focused about Breaking sequential habits of thought.
Presentation Slides [pdf]

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Here is a video of lecture by Peter Mattson for the Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium (EE 380) on YouTube. Peter discusses how executing an application on a multicore processor can improve performance by an order of magnitude or more but poses daunting programming obstacles and how stream programming is a practical approach to overcoming [...]

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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 [...]

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Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have developed a microprocessor based on the ARC600 32-bit configurable architecture from ARC International plc. (St. Albans, England). A working prototype has been demonstrated in the laboratory.
The microprocessor has been named EnCore and it is touted as being capable of reducing power consumption of portable gadgets such as MP3 [...]

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In late June 2009, at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Universal Parallel Computing Research Center Summer School for Multicore Programming team produced a top notch event that immersed all of the participants in the fundamental of parallel programing.
UPCRC Co-Director Marc Snir kicked it off with an Introduction to Parallelism. His broad overview touched on many [...]

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Cilk Arts teamed up with MIT’s Professional Development Program on a 2-day workshop focused on multicore programming. Here is the video of second day’s lecture.
The first two lectures can be watched at Lecture 1 and Lecture 2.
The third lecture covered:
* Implementation of Cilk Loops
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The Intel Academic Community announced the launch of its center of excellence for faculty training at M S Ramaiah Institute of Technology (MSRIT), Bangalore, India.
This Center of Excellence at the MSRIT campus which is fully equipped with latest Intel hardware and software aims to train 300 faculties from 155 institutes of Visveswaraiah Technological University (VTU) [...]

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