REU Site: A Passionate on Parallel-A Summer Research Program

REU 网站：并行夏季研究项目的热情

• 批准号: 1263145
• 负责人: Craig Zilles
• 金额: $ 34.21万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-03-15 至 2016-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1263145&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Passionate; Parallel; Summer

This funding renews a highly successful CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that is focused on parallel computing. The transition to "parallelism as the default" will be a change in the computing landscape of the magnitude of the introduction of the Internet. A central challenge in this transition is a shortage of people with expertise in parallelism. This site will train students in the basics of parallel programming, provide them with application-centric research experiences that demonstrate to them the qualitative impact that parallelism can have on computing applications, and help them develop the confidence that they need to be successful in graduate school. The host institution (UIUC) is well known as a center of parallel computing research and will provide an excellent environment for the REU students to learn about the application of parallelism to a range of scientific and computational problems.This site will provide the opportunity for 30 undergraduate students (over three years) to develop essential skills in parallel programming in an application-focused research context and to develop a network of mentors, role models, and peers to inform and advise them about performing research, careers in research, and graduate school. A major motivation for the site is improving the retention of women in the sciences, and the PIs have various strategies for addressing this goal. The PIs will disseminate what they learn about engaging women in computer science research, and will also encourage and facilitate publication by the participating students and their mentors.

这笔资金更新了伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校的 CISE 本科生研究体验 (REU) 网站，该网站非常成功，该网站专注于并行计算。 向“默认并行性”的转变将导致计算领域发生与互联网引入同等程度的变化。 这一转变的一个主要挑战是缺乏并行性方面的专业知识。 该网站将培训学生并行编程的基础知识，为他们提供以应用程序为中心的研究经验，向他们展示并行性对计算应用程序的定性影响，并帮助他们树立在研究生院取得成功所需的信心。 主办机构 (UIUC) 作为并行计算研究中心而闻名，将为 REU 学生提供一个绝佳的环境，让他们了解并行性在一系列科学和计算问题中的应用。该网站将为 30 名本科生（三年以上）提供机会，让他们在以应用为中心的研究环境中培养并行编程的基本技能，并建立一个由导师、榜样和同行组成的网络，为他们提供有关开展研究、职业生涯的信息和建议。 研究和研究生院。 该网站的一个主要动机是提高女性在科学领域的保留率，PI 制定了多种策略来实现这一目标。 PI 将传播他们在让女性参与计算机科学研究方面所学到的知识，并将鼓励和促进参与的学生及其导师发表论文。