Curriculum-change-minutes-2009-06-26

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Parallism Working Groups notes for March, 26, 2009

Chairperson for this meeting - Professor Charlie Peck
Charlie to arrange for notes – Fitz?
And post on wiki

Three Agenda items + Opens
General Panel Session – SC09
Supercomputing Education Panel – SC09
CACM Article
Opens

General Panel Accepted Preparing the World for Ubiquitous  
Parallelism has been accepted at Supercomputing 09.  Our slot is  
Fri, Nov - 20  10:30AM - 12:00PM PB252.
http://scyourway.nacse.org/conference/selection? 
event_Panel=1&whichdays=1
This represents a more industry focused discussion but with strong  
academic backing. Topics based on Panel submission.  Each  
participant to present personal view –need not mesh

Probable discussants –do we need more?  Others?
Moderator:
Matthew Wolf  (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Panelists:
Steven Parker  (NVIDIA)
Tom Murphy  (Contra Costa College)
Michael Wrinn  (Intel Corporation)
Benedict Gaster  (AMD)

Will begin organizing process for content creation September time  
frame.

Supercomputing education panel
A curriculum for many cores –draft article for CACM journal and a  
stake in the sand for the next ACM curriculum recomendation
Need to determine date/time –Charlie/Tom AR
Topic will be based on CACM article draft (see below).  Panel will  
present draft and discuss with audience
Possible discussants
Clay Breshears - Intel
Wen-Mei Hwu – U of Illinois
NVidia to suggest
AMD to suggest
Larry Snyder – U of W
Dan Garcia/ Kathy Yelick
Tom Murphy
Others on this call
Others?

3.CACM article
Discuss progress, our next step steps and set expectations for  
review and input.  Discuss Wiki and CVS process