SC13, SC14 Little Fe Workshop

LittleFe是一个完整的6节点Beowulf风格的便携式计算集群，支持共享内存并行（OpenMP），分布式内存并行（MPI）和GPGPU并行（CUDA）。这些低成本、重量轻的单元非常适合无法访问并行平台进行并行和分布式计算教育的机构和教学环境。在并行平台上教授加速比、效率和负载平衡等关键概念要有效得多。该奖项旨在支持作为SC 13和SC 14 HPC教育者计划的一部分托管LittleFe构建。总之，这将使LittleFe项目能够在2013年和2014年期间在美国各地的教育机构增加16个LittleFe单元。这些单位将支持并行编程和分布式计算在本科CS课程在另外16所学院和大学。他们还将支持学生编程竞赛，这些竞赛将在XSEDE13和XSEDE14会议上举办，并在美国各地的初中和高中举办推广活动。

LittleFe is a complete 6 node Beowulf style portable computational cluster which supports shared memory parallelism (OpenMP), distributed memory parallelism (MPI), and GPGPU parallelism (CUDA). These low-cost light-weight units are well-suited for institutions and teaching environments that do not have access to parallel platforms for parallel and distributed computing education. Teaching key concepts such as speedup, efficiency, and load balancing are much more effectively done on a parallel platform. This award is to support hosting LittleFe buildouts as part of the HPC Educators Program at the SC13 and SC14. In total, this will enable the LittleFe project to place 16 additional LittleFe units at educational institutions throughout the United States during 2013 and 2014. These units will support parallel programming and distributed computing in the undergraduate CS curriculum at 16 additional colleges and universities. They will also support student programming contests which will be hosted at e.g. the XSEDE13 and XSEDE14 conferences, and outreach events at junior and senior high schools across the United States.