Teaching Different Parallel Programming Paradigms Using Java.

Abstract

Parallel computing has emerged as a key technology for the solution of large-scale problems arising in computational science and engineering. Therefore, principles and techniques of writing parallel programs should be taught to the students at an early stage of their education rather than as an advanced topic near the end of a curriculum. This note describes a practical training course for undergraduates, where the programming language Java is used to pave the student's way from concurrent programming using native Java threads via OpenMP-like shared memory programming to distributed memory programming based on the message passing interface MPI.