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Udacity: Update on Udacity CS344: Intro to Parallel Programming
Udacity and NVIDIA launched Intro to Parallel Programming (CS344) in February 2013. The course is geared towards students who have experience in C and want to learn the fundamentals of massively parallel computing. Taught by John Owens, a professor at UC Davis, and David Luebke, senior director of graphics research at NVIDIA, CS344 offers 30+ hours of instruction, videos and problem sets. As we begin the new year, we decided to check in with Dave for his perspectives on parallel programming: Dave, what is parallel programming and why is it important? Modern computers don’t perform computations one at a time, or “serially.” Rather, they are designed to run many computations concurrently, or “in parallel.” This allows them to do much more work in a given amount of time, and deliver results considerably faster. The past decade has seen a tectonic shift from serial to parallel computing. Once the domain of exotic supercomputers, parallel pro…