QA-IQ & NIIT Partner To Launch Intel Multi-Core Training Program In The UK
Skilling developers in leveraging the power of multi-core technology

July 16, 2007
QA-IQ, the UK’s leading learning solutions provider, and NIIT, a Global IT Training provider, today announced the UK launch of a Multi-Core training curriculum, developed jointly by NIIT and Intel and deployed globally by NIIT.

As part of the alliance, QA-IQ, an industry-leader with over twenty years’ experience in the field of technical training, will offer this specialised new training curriculum at its training centres across the UK.

As the IT industry transitions from single-core processors to Multi- Core, software developers will need a new set of skills to design and develop software that harnesses the full potential of these processors. According to industry estimates, the global software developer population is expected to grow by 34% to 17.1 million, by 2009. NIIT, in association with QA-IQ will offer the Intel Multi-Core training curriculum to this developer community in the UK.

According to Mr. Ashish Basu, President, NIIT, “This unique alliance brings together Intel’s expertise in Multi-Core technology and NIIT’s ability to deliver this training to the software development community, in partnership with QA-IQ in the UK.”

Speaking on the occasion Vendor Partnership Manager at QA-IQ, Philip Myers, said,“The launch of the new curriculum will help us equip a large pool of software developers with the skills they need to take advantage of the new Multi-Core processor architecture. This partnership with NIIT will allow QA-IQ to become a key regional player in the delivery of Intel training and provide significant benefit to our customers by adding to our already broad technical curriculum.”

The Multi-Core training curriculum will offer 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 key diagnostic skills and specialised threading tools which will allow rapid deployment of correct and efficient parallel applications.

This global launch is another important element in Intel’s over-all initiative to prepare the software industry for Multi-Core programmers and NIIT’s mission of Global Talent Development.

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