REU Site: Supercomputing Program for Undergraduate Research

小行星9322321 美国国家科学基金会在高性能计算方面的倡议对国家研究界的科学机会产生了巨大的影响。理论中心的本科研究超级计算计划（SPUR）通过将计算研究的机会扩展到本科生来补充这一举措。通过为学生提供早期的研究经验，该计划是激励学生追求职业生涯和数学，科学和工程研究生教育的有效手段。 通过该计划，本科生将在康奈尔大学教师和康奈尔理论中心科学技术人员的共同指导下调查计算科学研究领域的问题。在研究项目的同时，学生不仅将参与科学研究，还将学习计算方法并接受高性能计算技术的培训。研究项目将利用理论中心的先进计算工具，包括使用可扩展的并行处理和可视化工具。 研究经验将通过来自具有多学科背景和研究项目的不同机构的学生之间的互动来增强。在长期关系的基础上，该中心将积极从历史悠久的黑人大学和女子大学招募人才，并将目标对准那些缺乏强大研究方向的机构。因此，在计算研究资源有限的学院和大学的学生将有机会承担重要的研究项目，作为他们本科教育的一部分。

9322321 Guckenheimer The National Science Foundation's initiative in high performance computing has had a tremendous impact on scientific opportunities for the national research community. The Theory Center's Supercomputing Program for Undergraduate Research (SPUR) complements this initiative by extending the opportunities of computational research to undergraduate students. By providing students with an early research experience, this program is an effective mean of motivating students to pursue careers and graduate education in mathematics, science, and engineering. Through this program, undergraduate students will investigate problems in an area of computational science research under the joint guidance of a Cornell University faculty member and a member of the Cornell Theory Center's scientific and technical staff. While working on their research projects, the students will not only participate in scientific research but will also learn about computational methods and receive training in high performance computing techniques. The research projects will take advantage of the advanced computational tools of the Theory Center, including the use of scalable parallel processing and visualization tools. The research experience will be enhanced by the interaction among students from diverse institutions with multidisciplinary backgrounds and research projects. Building on longstanding relationships, the Center will aggressively recruit from historically black colleges and women's colleges and also target thoseinstitutions which lack a strong research orientation. Students at colleges and universities with otherwise limited computational research resources will thus have the opportunity to undertake significant research projects as part of their undergraduate education.