Speaking on the occasion, Narendra Bhandari, Director for Asia Pacific of the Intel Software and Services Group, said, "The initiative is a step in the right direction to empower the faculty of Visveswaraiah Technological University with information, knowledge and tools from the world over via a single resourceful community.
Source: IntelThe Intel Academic Community already has over 1000 universities as part of the community of which India contributes the highest number at 259. A good example of the power of the community is the efforts of Prof. H.S. Jamadagni from IISc Bangalore. He joined the programme, utilized the tools and developed a world class curriculum on Parallel Programming for his students.
This curriculum is just not beneficial for the IISc students but is also being used now as a reference for developing an undergraduate framework for VTU and other autonomous institutions. Prof Jamadagni is today sharing this curriculum with the online community”
The Center of Excellence at MSRIT along with selected faculty from VTU will develop the undergraduate curriculum based on Prof H. S. Jamadagni’s framework and will train faculties on the same to start curriculum implementation at an undergraduate level by 2010.
Prof. Jamadagni said, “This event is a launching pad for creating a well knit community of professionals from the university and the Industry t propel teaching, research and application of Multicore architecture in the coming years.”
A large repository of curriculum and content created by faculty from several universities worldwide is available on the Intel® Academic Community. Intel is continuously working with several engineering institutes in India to help develop an undergraduate curriculum on Parallel Programming.
The universities enrolled into the Intel Academic Program can avail several benefits like access to several online forums for knowledge exchange and technical support, Parallel Programming course material from Intel which can be incorporated into their curriculum, invitation for relevant Industry events and free licenses for all Intel Software Development Products for the Computer lab amidst several others.
The Center of Excellence is of immense use not only for the faculty but also for the students. The students get a complete overview of multi-core architecture, importance of parallelism, threading concepts and methodology. Besides this students can also avail of the most efficient techniques of performance analysis for multi-core platforms using the latest Intel Software Development Products.
Some of the other leading institutions and universities from India that are a part of the Intel® Academic besides the Visveswaraiah Technological University and IISC are IIIT Hyderabad, IIT Kanpur, I2IT to name a few.
This unique programme has worked directly with leading universities in 72 countries to conduct research on future technologies. Since March 2007, over 2474 professors have participated worldwide, and over 130,000 students have directly benefited from the parallel programming classes and access to Intel Software Development Tools and new technologies.
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