The Exploration of Course Design of Parallel Computing in Information and Computer Science Specialty

With the development of multicore-processor, the parallel computer system are gaining a rapid progress from supercomputer to personal computer. But the knowledge on parallel computing is seldom involved in the traditional undergraduate stage of computer specialty. Under the current situation, it is very necessary to set the parallel computing as an independent course in the teaching plan of computer specialty. In this paper, the necessity of setting parallel computing course and how to construct the curriculum are discussed. Materials and the arrangement of teaching content, curriculum experiments, and the relationship with the other subjects are also discussed in detail.