India’s biggest IT education company NIIT has teamed up with Intel, the world’s largest chip maker to launch a multi-core training programme for software developers across the globe. Jointly developed by both companies, the training module would be deployed across 40 nations by NIIT through its own centres and new partnerships.
R. S. Pawar, chairman of the New Delhi based NIIT said the programme would offer corporate and individual clients training from an overview of multi-core to a working experience of parallel programming including multi-threaded programming and performance optimisation.
NIIT is the only training company with which Intel is currently partnering on a global basis, said Narendra Bhandari, director for Asia Pacific of Intel's Developer Relations Division. Intel shared content and technology with NIIT, which in turn converted it into training material and courseware that could be used in a classroom environment, he added.
Pawar said such a programme became important in view of the industry gradually moving from single-core processors to multi-core. Software developers would need a new set of skills to design and develop software that harnessed the full potential of these processors.
The multicore training programme will be delivered by NIIT and its subsidiary Element K Corp. in Rochester, New York, in over 32 countries. NIIT is also partnering with Intel Software Training Providers in Australia, Germany, South Korea and the UK, as well as other training partners in Turkey and Russia.
Intel is planning to increase the number of country-specific and regional training partners who can offer course training on multicore software development, Bhandari said.
In the first year, NIIT would be training about 50,000 professionals. The programme had also been included in the NIIT’s industry-endorsed programme, GNIIT, he added.
Speaking on the occasion, Intel Corporation Director (Developer Relations Division) Scott Apeland said, “The power of multi-core processors to increase software performance is incredible, but not automatic. The full potential of multi-core processors is best unleashed when software is designed to take advantage of the power of multiple cores. This evolution of processor technologies has brought the software developer and architect community to a phase where they need to re-look at their existing skill-sets.”
The multi-core training curriculum offered basic and advanced training, including the intricacies of multi-threaded programming and performance optimisation, he added.
In March this year, NIIT tied up with EMC Corp. to train storage professionals in 32 countries including India. The alliance, the first global training tie-up by EMC, aims at bridging a shortage of storage and information management professionals worldwide. |
