Planning Grant for a High Performance Computing Technology Center

一个由四所社区学院及其相关的高性能计算实验室组成的联盟正在研究为这些实验室提供技术支持的需求。高性能计算是使用一组联网的计算机处理器来并行执行复杂的计算操作。在这个项目中，正在开发、分发和分析一项调查，以确定对技术人员和他们所需技能的需求。一个由工业界、学术界和政府代表组成的国家咨询委员会正在指导该项目。涉及的学院有夏威夷大学/毛伊岛、威克技术学院、康特拉科斯塔学院和佩里西比州立技术社区学院。高性能计算合作伙伴包括毛伊岛高性能计算中心、橡树岭、劳伦斯伯克利和劳伦斯利弗莫尔国家实验室，以及北卡罗来纳超级计算中心。

A consortium of four community colleges and their associated high performance computing laboratories are studying the need for technician support for these laboratories. High performance computing is the use of a networked group of computer processors that perform complex computational operations in parallel. In this project, a survey is being developed, distributed, and analyzed to determine the demand for technicians and the skills they need. A national advisory board composed of representatives from industry, academia and government are guiding the project. The colleges involved are University of Hawaii/Maui, Wake Technical College, Contra Costa College, and Pellissippi State Technical Community College. The high performance computing partners include Maui High Performance Computing Center, Oak Ridge, Lawrence Berkeley and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, and the North Carolina Supercomputing Center.