CSinParallel Demos at SIGCSE '12

Modules

• WebMapReduce for CS1
• Using the WebMapRepduce software, students are able to understand the difference between sequential and parallel computation through data parallelism.

• Programming with multiple cores
• Through the use of threads, students explore the potential issues surrounding parallelism while observing the increase in speed.
• Uses either Intel's TBB or OpenMP

• Concurrent Data Structures
• While implementing a web crawler, students gain an understanding of thread safe data structures.
• Uses either Java threads or Boost threads
• Cluster Programming with MPI
• Students use Open MPI to learn about distributed computing, including how to arrange data and work among different nodes, while using the C++ API to interface with the cluster.