1. Stakeholders How to engage them ? How to ensure success ? David Padua University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2. Assumptions Parallelism (controlled by programmer) will be the norm in the foreseeable future in most programming activities. Hence performance concerns will rule again (necessary evil). – We have reasons to believe this, but it is not completely clear that this will be the case. Today’s students are taught very little about performance on real machines

3. Stakeholders Students – Should learn the most advanced notions of computing for knowledge sake. All men by nature desire to know. – Aristotle – Marketable skills. For lifelong practice Educational institutions – To do their job well. – Marketable skills. To improve their appeal

4. Stakeholders (cont.) Users of high-end machines (Government labs, National security, Industry [oil, transportation, drugs, Internet search] – Need qualified personnel. Computer vendors – Need qualified parallel programmers to make parallelism a success at a massive scale. [Intel, NVIDIA, AMD] – Need computer science graduates to understand parallelism to design their machines and software. [Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, IBM, Cray] – Less of an issue

5. How to engage them ? Motivate them – Students, Educational institutions. Need Convincing of the importance of this. But… Where are the jobs ? – Users of high-end machines. They are ok with graduate students But will likely engage if asked. – Computer vendors Already convinced (at least Intel, NVIDIA) Give them an opportunity to participate in equal terms with academics. – Help with formulation in the curriculum – Teach part of the courses – Participate in round tables to discuss recommendations.

6. How to ensure success ? Produce a high quality document – Well written. – Address practical issues as wellas fundamental principles in algorithms, machines, programming. – Flexible recommendations (alternatives) – Take into account different environments. Contribute to create excellent teaching material – Books – Slides – Programming assignments, tools. – Youtube lectures.