The Hindu Business Line : Intel, NIIT to launch multi-core training

GLOBAL REACH: The NIIT Chairman, Mr Rajendra S. Pawar (left), and the Director of Developer Relations Division of Intel Corporation, Mr Scott Apeland, pose during the launch of the Intel Multi Core Training Curriculum, in the Capital on Tuesday. — Kamal Narang

New Delhi June 26 NIIT and Intel on Tuesday announced the launch of `multi-core' training curriculum that has been developed jointly and would be deployed by NIIT globally. This would pave the way for NIIT, along with its training partners, to offer Intel multi-core training curriculum to one lakh software developers over the next 3 years.

"The power of multi-core processors to increase software performance is not automatic. The full potential of multi-core processors is unleashed when software is designed to take advantage of the power of multiple cores. This evolution of processors technologies has brought the software developer and architect community to a phase where they need to re-look at their existing skill-sets," Mr Scott Apeland, Director, Developer Relations Division of Intel Corporation, said at a conference here.

The multi-core training curriculum offers basic and advanced training - from an initial overview of multi-core, to a working experience of parallel programming, including the intricacies of multi-threaded programming and performance optimisation. The curriculum has been designed to empower developers with diagnostic skills and specialised Intel threading tools, which would allow rapid deployment of efficient parallel applications.

The multi-core training curriculum would be delivered using NIIT's reach in 32 countries and its subsidiary Element K in the US and Canada. To further enhance the reach of training, NIIT is partnering with Intel Software Training providers such as Training Choice is Australia and Singapore, TRIA IT Training in Germany, Samsung SDS in South Korea and QA-IQ in the UK. Other training partners include NETRON and Aribil in Turkey; and Academy IT and LANIT in Russia.

"NIIT will aggressively build global talent for Intel's multi-core technology," the NIIT Ltd Chairman, Mr Rajendra S. Pawar, said.

Earlier in August 2005, following an MoU with Intel to train 50,000 developers on Intel technologies, the Intel VTune Performance Analyser course was embedded into the GNIIT curriculum resulting in 20,000 developers completing the training by end 2007.

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