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The LittleFe/BCCD Project is a combination of hardware, software, and curriculum to facilitate the inclusion of high-performance computing (HPC), data-enabled science (DES), and computational science (CS) education in high school, undergraduate, and graduate settings. The hardware is a six-node computational cluster whose parts cost $2800, easily a...
LittleFe buildout events are training and infrastructure opportunities for teams of accepted faculty and students from educational institutions across the United States to assemble LittleFe educational appliances (http://littlefe.net) and learn to use them in the classroom to teach parallel programming, cluster computing, and computational/data ena...
Much of computing education research is devoted to introductory computer science. The articles in this special issue look at the other end of the spectrum: learning advanced subjects, here, concurrent, parallel and distributed computation. The articles present four approaches for teaching these subjects using infra-structure that is feasible for ed...
Although Moore's Law continues to hold at present, Moore's Dividend - where software developers could rely on increasingly faster CPUs to make their software faster - has expired [5]. Instead of manufacturing uni-core CPUs with faster clocks, hardware manufacturers are producing multi-core CPUs, and many-core CPUs (with 32 or more cores) have begun...
A growing proportion of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) research is increasingly dependent on Cyberinfrastructure (CI). CI has experienced rapid progress in enabling technologies -- hardware, storage, networking, middleware, tools, libraries -- but much slower improvements in workforce development. Currently, CI consumers tend...
SUMMARY Current trends in microprocessor design are fundamentally changing the way that performance is extracted from computer systems. The previous programming model for sequential uniprocessor execution is being replaced quickly with a need to write software for tightly-coupled shared memory multiprocessor systems. Both academicians and business...
Several professionals are making efforts at developing low-cost hardware, software, and curricular platforms, to impart high-performance computing (HPC) education, outreach, and training (EOT). These professionals are developing these HPC-enabled tools for easy deployment in classrooms and workshops. Some of the tools that are used, to impart HPC E...
Many successful efforts are currently addressing the critical shortage of a diverse, well-prepared high-performance computing (HPC) workforce. The guest editors' goal, with this issue, is to stimulate large-scale international discourse to accelerate the adoption of the educational tools, curriculum, and pedagogy that reflect the increasing role of...
The increase in availability of open source research quality simulation software coupled with a reduction in barriers to high performance computer hardware access and new methods for adding interactivity to server-side web services have created a rich environment for the development of supercomputer based laboratories to augment the many personal c...
Contra Costa College, a community college near Berkeley, has planned to introduce a Computational Science and Engineering degree program that will include core mathematics, computer science, biology, chemistry, and physics courses with Introduction to Computational Science and a Computational-modeling course. This high school high-performance compu...
Clusters dedicated exclusively for educational purposes are rare, yet most educational institutions have an abundance of PC and Macintosh laboratories. The suggestive name bootable cluster CD (BCCD) offers hope. Indeed, at the BCCD's core is a bootable image that runs completely off dedicated media, which lets us use the BCCD to convert, within min...
A vocational high-performance computing (HPC) program is implemented at Contra Costra College, preparing students to be LInux cluster administrators. It began with a US Natiolnal Science Foundation-sponsored consortium of four community colleges task with developing an HPC technician curriculum reflective of the local community. Twenty five student...
In 2002, we first brought High Performance Computing (HPC) methods to the college classroom as a way to enrich Computational Science education. Through the years, we have continued to facilitate college faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to stay current with HPC methodologies. We have accomplished this b...
