An Undergraduate Laboratory for Teaching Parallel Computing

并行计算教学本科实验室

• 批准号: 9551154
• 负责人: Lori Pollock
• 金额: $ 5.24万
• 依托单位: University of Delaware
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1995
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1995-06-01 至 1997-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9551154&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Undergraduate; Laboratory; Teaching; Parallel; Computing

As parallel computing is becoming a cost effective way to achieve large performance gains, these high performance computing systems are changing the nature of research and development across all areas of science and engineering. However, skilled scientists are needed to exploit the opportunities that parallelism presents, which mandates that the university modify its cur- riculum to teach computer science, engineering, and other science students to use this new technology effectively. This grant enables the university to establish a parallel computing laboratory in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences. The project focuses on building a farm and a dedicated cluster of isolated workstation-class microprocessors, which enable students to exploit various paradigms of parallel computing and provide accurate performance feedback. This laboratory creates the necessary environment for a sophomore- level foundations course in parallel computing. It also allows for the integration of parallelism into existing core, and advanced, computer science courses, as well as other science and engineering courses.

随着并行计算成为实现大性能增益的成本有效的方式，这些高性能计算系统正在改变科学和工程的所有领域的研究和开发的性质。 然而，需要熟练的科学家来利用并行带来的机会，这要求大学修改其课程，以教授计算机科学，工程和其他科学专业的学生有效地使用这种新技术。 这笔赠款使该大学能够在计算机和信息科学系建立一个并行计算实验室。 该项目的重点是建立一个农场和一个独立的工作站级微处理器的专用集群，使学生能够利用并行计算的各种范例，并提供准确的性能反馈。 这个实验室为并行计算的二年级基础课程创造了必要的环境。 它还允许将并行性整合到现有的核心和高级计算机科学课程以及其他科学和工程课程中。