EduPar-25 Technical Program

Wednesday, June 04, 2025

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Milan, Italy

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*note: times are listed in the Milan, Italy time zone (GMT+1)

 

Time*
Event
Presenters
8:30-8:40

Welcome and Logistics

Sushil Prasad, Workshop Chair (UT-San Antonio)

Srishti Srivastava, Program Chair (University of Southern Indiana)

Satish Puri, Program Vice Chair (Missouri S&T)

8:45-9:45

Keynote

Session Chair: Srishti Srivastava

Title: Some Lessons from 50 Years of Parallel Programming

Keshav Pingali | PPT

The University of Texas at Austin

Abstract: The field of parallel programming started roughly in the mid 70’s when it was used to program high-end vector and parallel machines. Today, parallel hardware is ubiquitous – even cell-phones have multicore processors and GPUs, while data-centers in the cloud may have hundreds of thousands of servers – so parallel computing has become ubiquitous. This talk is a personal perspective on the accomplishments and failures of our field during this half-century journey, and the lessons we can learn for the future from these successes and failures.

Speaker Bio: Keshav Pingali received the B.Tech. degree from I.I.T. Kanpur and the Sc.D. degree from MIT in Computer Science. Between 1986 and 2006, he was on the faculty in the CS and ECE Departments at Cornell University, where he held the India Chair of Computing. Since 2006, he has been a professor in the CS department at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the W.A.”Tex” Moncrief Chair of Computing.

Dr. Pingali is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE, AAAS and a foreign member of the Academia Europaea. He is the recipient of the 2023 IEEE CS Charles Babbage Award, the 2023 ACM/IEEE Ken Kennedy Award, and the 2024 ACM SIGPLAN Programming Languages Achievement Award. In 2013, he was awarded the IIT Kanpur Distinguished Alumnus Award. He has served on the Gordon Bell Prize Committee (2013-2017), the NSF CISE Advisory Committee (2009-2012), and he was co-Editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) (2007-2010).

9:50-10:30

Paper Session 1: Educational Research

Session Chair: Brian Railing

Teaching Accelerated Computing with Hands-on Experience,

Işıl Öz, Chelsea Cropper

Crash Course on Quantum Computing for Engineering Students,

Leonel Sousa

10:30-11:00
Coffee Break
 
11:00-12:00

Paper Session 1: Educational Research (cont’d…)

Session Chair: Satish Puri

A Visual Unplugged Activity to Introduce PDC,

Mary Smith, Srishti Srivastava, David P. Bunde, April Crockett, Michael Gerten, Peter Maher, Jaime Spacco, Xiaoyuan Suo, Jiayin Wang, Michelle Zhu

SFS: A Simple File System for Teaching Parallelism in Computer Systems,

Brian Railing, Lukas Kebuladze, Nathan Deyak, Zachary Weinberg

Assessing Parallel and Distributed Computing Knowledge Through a Card Game,

Srishti Srivastava, Mary Smith

12:00-12:30

Announcement

IEEE TCPP announcements, current CDER activities, curriculum announcements, by Sushil Prasad (ppt)

EUMaster4HPC program announcement by Ezhilmathi KRISHNASAMY https://eumaster4hpc.eu/

12:30-2:00
Lunch
 
2:00-3:00

Paper Session 2: Research to Education

Session Chair: Mary Smith

High-Performance Computing for Graph AI: A Top-Down Perspective,

Yuede Ji

Visualizing MPI Collective Communication, Christopher Atala, Meredith Morrison,

Grey Ballard

Experience using AI in MPI Test Suite Development: Implications for Educators,

Callie Stewart, Gerald Gannod

3:00-3:30

Paper session 3: Peachy Assignments

Session Chair: Satish Puri

Simulating a Zombie Outbreak with Parallel Computing,

Xiaoyuan Suo

Implicit Matrix Transposition in MapReduce,

H. Martin Bücker, Johannes Schoder

(Link to Peachy Assignments)

3:30-4:00

Workshop Wrap-up Announcements

Sushil Prasad, Workshop Chair

4:00-4:30

Coffee Break

Workshop Ends

Poster Display (Link)

An Escape Room to Learn about Quantum and HPC,

Sandra Catalan, Rocío Carratalá-Sáez, Vicente López-Oliva

How do STEM postgraduates acquire skills needed to master HPC use – a qualitative view,

Katerina Michalickova

Simulating a Zombie Outbreak with Parallel Computing,

Xiaoyuan Suo

Implicit Matrix Transposition in MapReduce,

H. Martin Bücker, Johannes Schoder