Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) has become pervasive, from supercomputers and server farms containing multicore CPUs and GPUs, to individual PCs, laptops, and mobile devices. Even casual users of computers depend on parallel processing nowadays. It is now necessary for every computer user - and especially every programmer - to understand how parallelism and distributed computing affect problem solving. It is now essential to impart a range of PDC knowledge and skills at various levels within the educational fabric woven by Computer Science (CS), Computer Engineering (CE), and related computational curricula. Companies and laboratories need people with these skills and are finding that they must do extensive on-the-job training. However, rapid changes in hardware platforms, languages, programming environments, and advances in research increasingly challenge educators to decide what to teach and how to teach it, in order to prepare students for careers that are increasingly likely to involve PDC.

This workshop invites unpublished manuscripts from academia, industry, and government laboratories on topics pertaining to the needs and approaches for augmenting undergraduate education in Computer Science and Engineering, Computational Science as well as computational courses of STEM and business disciplines with PDC and high performance computing (HPC) concepts.

The workshop is particularly dedicated to bringing together stakeholders from industry (both hardware vendors and employers), government labs, funding agencies, and academia in the context of SC-13, so that each can hear the challenges faced by the others, can learn the various approaches to these challenges, and can generally have opportunities to exchange ideas and brainstorm solutions. In addition to contributed talks, this workshop will feature panels, special sessions, and invited talks on opportunities for collaboration, resource sharing, educator training, internships, and other means of increasing cross-fertilization between industry, government, and academia, without "eating the seed corn." Proposals for panels and special sessions are also welcome.

This effort is in coordination with NSF/TCPP curriculum initiative on Parallel and Distributed Computing and the Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing Curriculum Development and Educational Resources (CDER).

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1. Pedagogical issues in incorporating PDC and HPC in undergraduate education, especially in core courses
2. Novel ways of teaching PDC and HPC topics
3. Experience with incorporating PDC and HPC topics into core CS/CE courses
4. Pedagogical tools, programming environments, infrastructures, languages, and projects for PDC and HPC
5. Employers’ experiences with and expectation of the level of PDC and HPC proficiency among new graduates.

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

Papers: Authors are asked to submit 6-8 page papers in pdf format through the EasyChair submission site athttps://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=edupdhpc13 choosing its “Paper” track. Submissions should be formatted as single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See style templates for details. Papers will be published on the conference website.

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Panels: Prospective organizers are asked to submit a proposal in PDF format through the EasyChair submission site athttps://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=edupdhpc13 choosing its “Panel” track. Upload a single PDF file that describes the panel, which may include such information as description of the panel topic or position statements by the panelists. You must convince us that the panel will truly be an interactive session and not a series of presentations. Explain why the panel will attract a good audience and why the audience will feel that the panel was beneficial. Suggested length for this file is 1-2 pages. Use font and style as for papers noted earlier.

Special Sessions: A session will consist of 2-3 talks on a coherent theme spanning about an hour. Organizers are asked to submit a proposal in pdf format through the EasyChair submission site at https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=edupdhpc13choosing its “Special Session” track. Use font and style as for papers noted earlier. Upload a single PDF file (1-2 pages) that describes the session: (i) session goals - specifically how attendees will benefit, (ii) target audience, (iii) why the topic is relevant to workshop and SC attendees, (iv) general description of session content, and (v) links to resume or curriculum vitae for each presenter.



ORGANIZATION:

Workshop Chair:
Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University

Program Committee (Tentative):
Allen, Gabrielle, Louisiana State University
Buck, Scott, Intel
Crowder, Grace, National Security Agency
Dehne, Frank, Carleton University
Dongarra, Jack, Innovative Computing Laboratory - University of Tennessee
Garland, Michael, NVIDIA
Gopalakrishnan, Ganesh, University of Utah
Gordon, Steven, Ohio Supercomputer Center
Gupta, Anshul, IBM Research
Hong, Bo, Georgia Institute of Technology
Juedes, David, Ohio University
Kaeli, David, Northeastern University
Kant, Krishna, George Mason University
Kothapalli, Kishore, International Institute of Information Technology
Lathrop, Scott, Shodor
Lumsdaine, Andrew, Indiana University
Miller, Russ, SUNY, Buffalo
Pacheco, Peter, University of San Francisco
Padua, David, University of Illinois
Parashar, Manish, Rutgers University
Patt, Yale, The University of Texas at Austin
Phillips, Cynthia, Sandia National Laboratories
Prasad, Sushil, Georgia State University
Rosenberg, Arnold, Northeastern University
Sekharan, Chandra, Loyola University
Vivien, Frédéric, INRIASussman, Alan, University of Maryland
Wang, Cho-Li, The University of Hong Kong
Weems, Charles, University of Massachusetts
Wrinn, Michael, Intel
Wu, Jie, Temple University
Yang, Yuanyuan, Stony Brook University