UPCRC Illinois Offers Summer School for Multicore Programming

Programmers with little or no exposure to parallelism have an opportunity to learn about multicore programming at the UPCRC Illinois Summer School to be held June 22-26, 2009 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Coursework will provide a solid foundation in the fundamentals of multicore programming, offer hands-on experience with the use of multicore languages and libraries, and introduce emerging research topics. Upon completion, participants will be familiar with available tools, languages, and libraries that can be used to develop parallel programs, the pros and cons of those utilities, and will be able to choose the programming environment that best matches their application needs.

Prerequisites for the summer school are: a solid understanding and experience with programming and an interest in applying multicore programming to current/future academic or professional pursuits.

Applicants can choose to attend on campus at the Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science or online as a virtual student. Discounted rates for academic faculty, staff, and students are available.

For more information about the summer school and to apply, visit https://www.upcrc.illinois.edu/summer/2009/. Applications will be accepted online beginning April 15. Applicants will be notified within 3-5 days after submitting applications. The final day to apply is May 15.

The Universal Parallel Computing Research Center (UPCRC) at the University of Illinois is a joint research endeavor of the Department of Computer Science, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and corporate partners Microsoft and Intel. The center builds on a history of Illinois innovation in parallel computing that spans four decades. UPCRC Illinois is also one of many Parallel@Illinois efforts currently invested in pioneering and promoting parallel computing research and education.

Questions about the summer school can be emailed to Cheri Helregel at chelrege @ illinois . edu.

CONTACT: Cheri Helregel, UPCRC Outreach Coordinator, +1-217-265-6329, chelrege @ illinois . edu