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Intel Supports Multicore Education At 45 Universities. The move is said to prepare students for software development in an increasingly multicore world.

Intel Corp. Monday (Aug. 7) announced plans to support 45 of the world’s top universities with expertise, funding, development tools, educational materials, on-site training to incorporate multi-core and multi-threading concepts into computer science curricula.

According to Intel (Santa Clara, Calif.), the undertaking is a global effort to prepare university students for a "new paradigm" of software development as Intel transitions to processors incorporating multiple cores and threads. Intel expects more than 75 percent of its mainstream server, desktop and laptop PC processors to ship as dual core-processors by the end of this year. Four- and eight-core chips, are on the horizon, the company said.

"To usher in a new generation of computing technology and bring creative new products to market, it’s crucial to educate tomorrow’s software developers to architect, develop and debug the next generation of software for modern, multi-core platforms," said Renee James, corporate vice president and general manager of Intel’s software and solutions group. "The full potential of multi-core based systems to deliver great performance and expanded usages is unleashed when software is designed to take advantage of the full capabilities of the machine. Working with the world’s best universities, Intel is creating the future for performance computing."

By Dylan McGrath
EE Times

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