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Intel, NIIT training plan for software developers

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The curriculum will be deployed across 40 nations

— Photo: Rajeev Bhatt

MULTI-CORE MAGIC: Rajendra S. Pawar (second from left), Chairman, NIIT, and Scott Apeland (second from right), Director, Developer Relations Division, Intel Corporation, hold a plaque at a press conference in New Delhi on Tuesday. Ashish Basu (left), President, Knowledge Solutions Business, NIIT, and Narendra Bhandari, Director, Asia Pacific, Intel Software and Solutions Group, look on.

NEW DELHI: Leading chipmaker Intel Corporation and IT training company NIIT on Tuesday launched a multi-core training programme for software developers across the globe. Jointly developed by both companies, the training curriculum would be deployed across 40 nations by NIIT through its own centres and new partnerships.

Addressing a press conference here, NIIT Chairman R. S. Pawar 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.

This was 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, he added.

According to Mr. Pawar, NIIT has also tied up with various institutes in the U.S., the U.K., Australia and Singapore to promote this new and innovative programme.

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.

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