1. 10/17/2015 Stakeholders and How to Engage Them All – How to Ensure Success of This Initiative? Jie Wu Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences Temple University

2. 10/17/2015 Stakeholders Academia (two orthogonal partitions)  Educators and practitioners  Computer scientists and computational scientists Industry  IBM and Cray  Intel, AMD, and Nvidia Students  Graduate students  Undergraduate students Professional societies  ACM  IEEE Government agencies  NSF and DOE

3. 10/17/2015 How to Engage Them (1) Academia  Revisiting curricula Parallel vs. distributed systems Multi-core, GPU, and cloud computing  Bridging the gap Computer science Scientific computing (self-taught) Industry  Actively engaging them Industrial-sponsored activities Conferences (SC) Tutorials

4. 10/17/2015 How to Engage Them (2) Students  Recruitment “Attractive” curricula including new technologies “Best practice” in API, algorithms, and architecture design Professional societies  ACM Revisit ACM curriculum  IEEE Information meeting at both TCPP and TCDP Information dissemination using community mailing lists

5. 10/17/2015 How to Engage Them (3) Government agencies  CNS and CCF of CISE at NSF Travel grants PD information sessions at IPDPS and ICDCS  Cyberinfrastructure MRI and CRI equipment grants  Teragrid initiative (national centers) Increase community accessibility Increase community training and workshops

6. TeraGrid User Community Blue: 10 or more PI’s Red: 5-9 PI’s Yellow: 2-4 PI’s Green: 1 PI 1000 projects, 4000 users

7. 10/17/2015 List of Courses Design and Analysis of Parallel Algorithms  Textbooks: Kumar and Jaja  Reference: Leighton Advanced Computer Architecture  Textbooks: Hwang and Ni  References: Culler and Stone Distributed System Design  Textbook: Wu  References: Singhal and Tanenbaum Distributed Algorithms  Textbook: Lynch  Reference: Tel Concurrent Processing  Textbook: Andraws  References: Class notes