On the morning of July 8, the opening ceremony for the 2024 "HUST-USYD Summer School-Parallel Programming Hands-on Workshop" was successfully held. The event was hosted by Associate Professor Lu Feng from the School of Computer Science and Technology, with speeches from Professor Shi Xuanhua, Vice Dean of the School of Computer Science and Technology, and Professor Zhou Bingbing from the School of Information Technology at the University of Sydney. After the ceremony, Professor Zhou delivered the first summer school lecture.
In his speech, Professor Shi Xuanhua congratulated the successful launch of the summer school on behalf of the School of Computer Science and Technology. He expressed his heartfelt thanks to the instructors, workshop organizers, and teaching assistants for their hard work. He emphasized the importance of parallel computing, one of computer science's most significant and representative inventions today. Many real-world computing problems, such as big data analysis and deep learning in artificial intelligence, rely on it. The development and optimization of parallel algorithms and programming are rooted in the indispensable parallel thinking methods and skills of computer technology professionals. The School has long valued parallel programming courses, offering the first "Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming" CS2013 model course in 2011, making it the only course of its kind across mainland China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. This summer school serves as an essential extension and enhancement of that course, and he wished the parallel computing workshop a great success.
Following this, Professor Zhou Bingbing welcomed the participants and encouraged everyone to actively engage in the upcoming month of summer school to gain as much as possible from the workshop.
Lu Feng then introduced the schedule, learning objectives, and the instructors for the summer school. She expressed gratitude to Professor Zhou for his dedication, as well as to the EduCoder for their strong support, and acknowledged the efforts of the Office of International Affairs and the School of Computer Science and Technology for creating this valuable learning opportunity. She encouraged students to make the most of this chance, actively participate in the learning and practical tasks, adhere to the discipline, and interact more with teachers and peers. She also hoped that through a series of hands-on parallel programming experiments, students would gain a deeper understanding of parallel computing and optimization concepts.
The "HUST-USYD Parallel Programming Hands-on Workshop" aims to implement the spirit of expanding the openness of education, promote the construction of the "Double First-Class" initiative, introduce world-class teaching resources, and broaden the international academic perspectives of HUST students while enhancing the global impact of the university and its computer science discipline. The summer school was open to university students worldwide and attracted over 600 applications. After a selection process, 221 students from various institutions, including the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Melbourne, University of New South Wales, University of Wisconsin-Madison, University of Washington, Manchester Metropolitan University, University of Leeds, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, George Mason University, University of Barcelona, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, Tsinghua University, Peking University, and HUST, were admitted to 2024 3rd "HUST-USYD Parallel Programming Hands-on Workshop."
