Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) is nowadays omnipresent. It is in all the<br>computational environments, from mobile devices, laptops and desktops to clusters<br>of multicore nodes and supercomputers, comprising in most cases one or several<br>coprocessors of different types (GPU, MIC, FPGA). In this context, it is vital to train<br>new generations of scientists and engineers in the use of these computational systems,<br>so parallelism topics must be incorporated in Computer Science (CS) and Computer<br>Engineering (CE) programs.<br>In 2010 the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing<br>launched the Curriculum Initiative on Parallel and Distributed Computing, with Core<br>Topics for Undergraduates, and in 2011 started the workshop EduPar, dedicated to<br>Parallel and Distributed Computing Education. Given the differences in education in<br>different parts of the world, the Euro–EDUPAR workshop starts with the aim of<br>analyzing PDC Education in a European context, i.e. the structure and organization of<br>European education.<br>So, the 1st European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for<br>Undergraduate Students (Euro–EDUPAR) invites unpublished manuscripts from<br>individuals or teams from academia, industry, and other educational and research<br>institutes on topics pertaining to the teaching of PDC topics in the Computer Science<br>and Engineering curriculum as well as in Computational Science and with PDC and<br>high performance computing (HPC) concepts, with emphasis on European<br>undergraduate teaching, and the workshop especially seeks papers that report on<br>experiences incorporating PDC topics into undergraduate core courses taken by the<br>majority of students on a degree course. Methods, pedagogical approaches, tools, and<br>techniques that have potential for adoption across the European teaching community<br>are of particular interest.<br>The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:<br>1. Parallel and Distributed Computing teaching in the European space<br>2. Pedagogical issues in PDC, educational methods and learning mechanisms<br>3. Novel ways of teaching PDC topics, including informal learning environments<br>4. Curriculum design, models for incorporating PDC topics in core CS/CE curriculum<br>5. Experience with incorporating PDC topics into core CS/CE courses<br>6. Experience with incorporating PDC topics in the context of other applications learning<br>7. Pedagogical tools, programming environments, and languages for PDC<br>8. e–Learning, e–Laboratory, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), Small Private Online Courses (SPOC)<br>9. PDC experiences at non–university levels; secondary school, postgraduate, industry, diffusion of PDC<br>
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EuroEDUPAR
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Vienna
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Austria
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