Using cP2BL in Teaching Multi-Core Related Contents

With the progress of semiconductor technologies and the advent of multi-core processor, parallel programming models are evolving and the education is needed to help sequential programmers adapt to the requirements of those new technologies and architectures. Now multi-core related contents have been adopted into curricula syllabus of more than 100 universities in China, but how those contents be organized and delivered to students are still a big challenge. In this paper, we present the current status of multi-core education in China and try to divide related contents into several parts, we also introduce "contracted Problem/Project Based Learning (cP²BL)" strategy that have been adopted into teaching curricula "Multi-core Architecture and Multithreaded Programming Technologies", which runs well in Wuhan University.