Preparing for Extreme Parallel Enviroments from a Student's Perspective

Every student (including me!) upon graduation hopes their University has prepared them with all the skills to beat out the applicant sitting next to them for a job. Before joining as an intern with the Intel Academic Community, my conception of parallelism was to the say the least hazy. It was something I had at some point heard in lecture and buried far in the back of my brain in case I had to define it on a test sometime in the future. Through my time as an Intern my relationship with parallelism has become, for lack of a better word, intimate.