Pattern programming approach for teaching parallel and distributed computing

Authors:
Barry Wilkinson;Jeremy Villalobos;Clayton Ferner
Affiliations:
University of North Carolina Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA;Formerly of University of North Carolina Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA;University of North Carolina Wilmington, Wilmington, NC, USA
Venue:
Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
Year:
2013

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Abstract

In this paper, we describe an approach for teaching parallel and distributed computing at the undergraduate level using computational patterns. The goal is to promote higher-level structured design for parallel programming and make parallel programming easier and more scalable. A pattern programming framework has been developed to create a distributed application that avoids the need to write code in low level message--passing APIs such as MPI. Several patterns have been implemented including workpool, pipeline, synchronous and iterative all-to-all, and stencil. We have redesigned a regular senior undergraduate parallel programming course to begin with a pattern strategy using our framework and provide a detailed syllabus around patterns.