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Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityFaculty of Computational Mathematics

and Cybernetics (CMC MSU)

Informatics Europe:

Supercomputer state of

education in Europe

V. Voevodin,

A. Rasgulin, V. Tikhomirov

INARM Webinar

Moscow - 29.05.2013

(http://informatics-europe.org)
http://inarm-project.org/


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The Bureau UMC

in applied mathematics and computer science

on basic science and information technologies

Informatics Europe:

Supercomputer state of education in Europe

28 , 2013,


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Informatics Europe(http://informatics-europe.org)


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Informatics Europe(http://informatics-europe.org)


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Parallel Computing (Supercomputing)Education in Europe: State-of-Art

(Mission of the Working Group)

Show the need for changes in a higher educational system in the

area of computational sciences (IT).

Describe the current landscape of Parallel Computing

(Supercomputing) Education in Europe.

Prepare a set of recommendations how to bring ideas of Parallel

Computing into higher educational systems of European countries.


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Parallel Computing (Supercomputing)Education in Europe: State-of-Art

(International Working Group)

1. Vladimir Voevodin; Prof., Dr.Sci., Moscow State University, coordinator of WG,2. Victor Gergel; Prof., Dr.Sci., Nizhny Novgorod State University, coordinator of WG,

3. Bertrand Meyer; Prof., ETH Zurich,

4. Ali Yazici; Prof., Dr.; Software Engineering Department, Atilim University, Incek-Ankara/Turkey,

5. Andrey Komissarov; NVIDIA GPU Supercomputing marketing manager Europe, Middle East, Russia,

India,

6. Paul Guermonprez; Academic Program Manager - Europe, Russia, Middle East, Africa; Intel Software,

7. Lenuta Alboaie; Lecturer, PhD.; Faculty of Computer Science, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi,Romania,

8. Hubert Garavel; Directeur de Recherche; INRIA,

9. Peter Thiemann; Professor fur Informatik, Dr.; Institut fur Informatik, Universitat Freiburg,

10. Ayse Kiper; Prof., Dr.; Department of Computer Engineering, Middle East Technical University, Ankara-

Turkey,

11. Joseph Kiniry; Dr.; IT University of Copenhagen,

12. Femke van Raamsdonk; Dr.; Section Theoretical Computer Science, Department of Computer Science,

Faculty of Sciences, Vrije Universiteit,13. Radhakrishnan Delhibabu; Erasmus Mundus Fellow; RWTH Aachen, Germany,

14. Sven-Bodo Scholz; Prof.; Heriot-Watt University, UK,

15. Erik Hagersten; Professor in Computer Architecture, Uppsala University, Sweden,

16. Felix Wolf; Professor, German Research School for Simulation Sciences & RWTH Aachen University,

Germany,

17. Torsten Hoefler, [email protected]; Adjunct Assistant Professor, ETH Zurich,

18. Josep Ramon Herrero; Vice-Dean, Head of Academic Studies at FIB (Barcelona School of Informatics).19. Jaco van de Pol; Prof.Dr., Chair Formal Methods and Tools, Universiteit Twente, the Netherlands


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On-line survey(brief content)

1. General Questions (5)

2. Country-specific Situation (7)

3. University-specific Situation (14)

4. Detailed Information on PC&S Education in the University (10)

Total in the survey: 36questions


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On-line survey(brief statistics)

Austria

Denmark

Estonia France 3

Germany 5

Greece

India 3

Iran

Italy Latvia

Norway

Pakistan

Portugal

Romania Russia 12

Serbia

Spain 15

Sweden

Switzerland

Turkey 8 Ukraine

United Kingdom 3

Completed responses 64, from 22countries:


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1.2. Is PC&S a strategically important area?(summary of the responses)


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Yes, PC&S is a strategically important area:

Parallelism is everywhere, parallelism has become for masses,

THEREFORE:

software/algorithms must become parallel/distributed, scalable,

parallel computing must be one of the fundamentals in Computer

Science,

parallel computing must be taught almost to all science and

engineering students.

1.2. Is PC&S a strategically important area?(summary of the responses)

BUT the practice is different due to a lot of serious reasons


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BUT the practice is different due to a lot of serious reasons:

there is a "big gap" between progress of hardware andsoftware/algorithms

SINCE hardware evolves so fast and software needs to

catch up with hardware evolution,

there are not established standards

SINCE the area itself is very dynamic, it evolves so fast, itis inherent interdisciplinary, it covers so diverse topics,

1.3. What are the main problems in this area?(summary of the responses)


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there is a lack of traditions on implementation issues amongprofessors and, therefore, students, and

there are not many specialists in parallel computing as well as

there is a lack of skills in masses, and

not all the scientists, developers, and engineers recognize the

advantages of PC&SSINCE the area is pretty young,



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all existing components and technologies in the current softwarestack (OS, fault tolerance techniques, languages, compilation

techniques, tools,) should be revised completely in a few years

SINCE degree of parallelism in computing hardware

affecting all of them is growing very fast,

it is becoming more and more difficult to ensure efficiency,productivity, and portability of software

SINCE complexity of parallel computing platforms is

growing.



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WHY is the practice different?

PC&S is not included in compulsory courses in most ofuniversities, making it difficult to increase:

number of specialists,

understanding of the area,

interest to the area.



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1.4. What should be done in a short time

to solve these problems?(summary of the responses)

Almost all 64 responses include education (in different forms)


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Almost all 64 responses include education (in different forms):

parallel computing should be included in compulsory courses in

all the Computer Science and Engineering degrees,

to focus on basic training topics enough extended and acceptedas standard to establish a few curricula,

introduce parallel programming concepts early in education,

include parallel computer architectures and parallel computing

techniques in the core syllabus in computing degrees,

introduction in the curriculum of courses like computer science,

electronics and informatics concrete and well defined topics about

parallel computing,

texts on Parallel Computing/Programming,

the courses on parallel programming should become standard,

easy access to parallel computing platforms during education,


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NON Educational issues:

rethink the current hardware and software approaches

(co-design ideas?)

strengthen language-processing technology. Educate people indomain-specific programming rather than coding close to the

architecture

extensive research on appropriate parallel computing paradigms

good financing of software development for supercomputers

improve funding situation for seeding research projects into

hardware/software design of innovative parallel systems.


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1.5. Can the development of PC&S topical contents be useful?(i.e. structure of the area, Body of Knowledge, )

(3 of 6 No I do not understand the question)


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2.5. What is your appreciation of the number of well-trained

PC&S specialists in your country?(summary of the responses)


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2.7. Do you see any country-specific aspects

of PC&S issues?(summary of the responses)

Main national conferences: EUROPAR, Grid 5000, workshop

REMPAR...

Economy.

Issues of funding.

Lack of PC&S resources available.

There is high demand from the Scientific Computing community

for education in Parallel Computing, but no big industries drive the

need with their real applications. This is due to lack of such

industries in such a small country like Estonia.

PC&S are extremely important for Norway's oil industry. Also

play an important role in operational weather forecasting (we have

a very long coast line to track!) and medical imaging.


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3.2. Availability of supercomputing resources

for the university faculty staff(summary of the responses)


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3.6. Are there advanced training university programs

in PC&S?(summary of the responses)


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3.13. Is it necessary to establish more collaboration

in PC&S education?(summary of the responses)

Quote from the survey:

Problems in the PC&S area are unlikely to be solved in a short time. Key ingredients

of their solution will be broad interdisciplinary and international cooperation. (c)


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