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.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of EduHPC 2015 |
| Subtitle of host publication | 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 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450339612 |
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| State | Published - Nov 15 2015 |
| Event | Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing, EduHPC 2015 - Austin, United States Duration: Nov 15 2015 → … |
Publication series
| Name | 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 |
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Conference
| Conference | Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing, EduHPC 2015 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Austin |
| Period | 11/15/15 → … |
Funding
The authors would like to thank Brent Gorda and Ricky Kendall for creating the Student Cluster Competition, the Supercomputing conference series and ACM/IEEE for continuing to host and provide financial support, and the HPC vendors and supporters who provide systems/software, mentorship, and financial support to make the competition possible each year. A portion of this work was performed at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which is supported by the Office of Science of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC05-00OR22725 and Los Alamos National Laboratory, supported by the U.S. Department of Energy contract DE-FC02-06ER25750. The publication has been assigned the LANL identifier LA-UR-15-27495.
Keywords
- Curriculum
- Education
- HPC
- PDC
- Student Cluster Competition
- Undergraduate