Computer architecture education in multicore era: Is the time to change

Abstract

Chip Multicore Processor (CMP) has become the mainstream microprocessor architecture in nowadays industry and academic literature. With the progress of CMP hardware developing and researching, software issues become more and more prominent. Coupled with these developments, many institutes and universities change their curriculums of computer architecture related courses. But the problem is dowe really know what we should teach in this fast changing times and is the right time now to make these changing without actually knowing what future would be. In this paper, we argue four key problems that we thought we should think carefully before we make the final decision. And also some suggestions are given for the educators of this area.

An Educational and Training Perspective on Integrating Hybrid Technologies with HPC Systems for Solving Real-World Commercial Problems

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