An Evaluation of the Teaching of Programming and the Introduction of High Performance Computing Concepts in Technical Computer Courses: A Case Study in a Federal Institute in the Interior of Para.

Abstract

Sustainable development in the area of Information Technology (IT) has become a reality and a necessity not only in IT centers, with the reuse and recycling of equipment, but also in large industries with the use of good sustainable production practices and reverse logistics. The development of computer clusters became a sustainable option in the reuse of computers that would be discarded and an incentive in the teaching and learning process of Parallel Programming. This work presents an analysis carried out among the teachers and students of the Federal Institute of Pará -Campus Abaetetuba, in the Amazon region, on the need to insert contents related to the area of High-Performance Computing in the curricular matrices of the technical courses of Informatics of the Institution. The survey showed that 71% of the participating teachers would like to have a cluster in the Institution, while 56% of the students would like to have content of this nature in the curricular matrices of their courses.