@inproceedings{884aeaca85a9409b8813f3e58efca622,
title = "Student cluster competition: A multi-disciplinary undergraduate HPC educational tool",
abstract = "National labs, academic institutions and industry have a strong need for scientists and staff that understand high performance computing (HPC) and the complex interconnections across individual topics in HPC. However, domain science and computer science undergraduate programs are not providing sufficient educational resources, and are far from conveying the interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of the HPC environment. The Student Cluster Competition (SCC) was created as an educational tool to immerse undergraduates in HPC. It is a microcosm of professional HPC centers that teaches and inspires students to pursue careers in the field. The SCC's impact is reected in new undergraduate curricula and through the experience of the students themselves. The SCC can complement a strong parallel and distributed computing (PDC) curriculum through experiential learning and engagement with the HPC community as a whole, which will prepare graduates for the interdisciplinary nature of work in HPC fields.",
keywords = "Curriculum, Education, HPC, PDC, Student Cluster Competition, Undergraduate",
author = "Harrell, {Stephen Lien} and Nam, {Hai Ah} and {Vergara Larrea}, {Ver{\'o}nica G.} and Kurt Keville and Dan Kamalic",
note = "Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2015 ACM.; Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing, EduHPC 2015 ; Conference date: 15-11-2015",
year = "2015",
month = nov,
day = "15",
doi = "10.1145/2831425.2831428",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of EduHPC 2015: Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing - Held in conjunction with SC 2015: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery, Inc",
booktitle = "Proceedings of EduHPC 2015",
}