Seminar

"Seminar - Current Parallel Programming/Libraries"

Newsgroup
The newsgroup of the event can be found here.

Short description
Starting with modern smartphones/tablets over desktop computers up to supercomputers all systems nowadays use multiple CPUs to offer as much performance as possible. Unfortunately, the step to more parallelism is not transparent for developers, so they have to explicitly specify the parallelism. In this seminar we will introduce the latest programming languages / libraries that help to write parallel programs as easy as possible.

The participants practice in the seminar in particular

• working with scientific, English-language texts
• the familiarization with a scientific field that was previously unknown to them
• different presentation and teaching methods

A visit to the project of the same name is not obligatory, but recommended. Participants can propose their own topics. To do so, please send an e-mail to Jens Breitbart (jbreitbart@uni-kassel.de) at least one week before the preliminary meeting, indicating the topic and literature.

Participants
Students from the 5th semester of computer science.

Requirements
Basic knowledge in parallel programming is recommended, but not mandatory.

Techniques for presentation and elaboration

• Rainer Bromme, Riklef Rambow: Improving the oral presentation of papers: An educational goal and at the same time a contribution to the quality of teaching, Das Hochschulwesen, 1993, issue 6, pp. 289-297. online.
• There is a good quick guide to writing scientific papers from the Department of Ecological Agar Science.
• If you want to know more about the topic (especially with regard to a later diploma thesis), you should read the guide to scientific writing from FB6.
• Peter Rechenberg: Technical Writing (not only) for Computer Scientists, Hanser, 2003.
• Justin Zobel: Writing for Computer Science, Springer, 2004.
• Otto Kruse: Keine Angst vor dem leeren Blatt, Campus Verlag, 2002, contains, among other things, a 15-step guide to writing scientific texts.

Seminar leader
Dipl.-Inf. Jens Breitbart

Time/Place
There will be a preliminary meeting on Monday, 24.10.11 from 14:00 - 15:00 2307A of the department. Further dates will be arranged there.

Scope

• Bachelor 2 SWS (3 CP)
• Master 2 SWS (4 CP)

Other
Interested? Questions? Please contact Dipl.-Inf. Jens Breitbart by e-mail. The earlier it is known how many people are interested, the better the seminar can be planned and the event can be prepared.

Links
Seminar Bachelor in the HISLSF online course catalog
Seminar Master in the HISLSF online course catalog