HPC Education Through Formal On-line On-Demand Curriculum

通过正式的在线点播课程进行 HPC 教育

• 批准号: 1349527
• 负责人: Thomas Sterling
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Indiana University
• 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: 2013-10-01 至 2015-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1349527&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: HPC; Education; Through; Formal; line

Advances in science and engineering are increasingly dependent on effective use of high performance computers for simulation of physical phenomena and analysis of experimentation data. Yet experts in the US in the development and application of supercomputing are relatively few; even as national demand and international competition increasingly stress the nation's capabilities in this area. Critical to satisfying the countryss needs in the field of high performance computing is the ready access to quality education to train future computational scientists, computer scientists, and design engineers as well as systems' administrators in the application, development, and management of the most powerful computers in the world. The field of HPC as a whole comprises many areas of specialization. But they all share the same common interrelated foundations. This project is developing a new college level course in High Performance Computing to serve as an entry-level introduction for all who wish to enter the field. The new syllabus presents the concepts, knowledge, and skills required by everyone who will be engaged in activities associated with high performance computing. In a closely synergistic manner, the separate topics related to parallel programming interfaces, supercomputer architecture, applications and parallel algorithms, and software environments and tools are combined in a mutually supportive presentation across about two-dozen lectures. Students become familiar with the material through hands-on programming examples and independent exercises for experience with methods and tools, as well as to be exposed to the sensitivity of system operational behavior to a range of alternative approaches and use-cases. Cultural aspects of the field are also shared including the extensive domain specific terminology, the rich history, and key leadership institutions and people. Students who have completed this intense first-year graduate (and advanced senior-level) college course will be capable of proceeding on to advanced areas of specialization, accepting entry-level positions in industry and national laboratories for which computation is of critical importance in fulfilling their mission, or in preparation to guide such courses in the future at home educational institutions.This course will achieve the widest possible dissemination and impact by being recorded in high definition digital video and made available on-line and on-demand to all who wish to view the lectures. Organized as short segments of between 5 and 11 minutes each, the material is easily viewed and reviewed for best educational experience. Detailed slides to which the lectures are directed are edited into the video stream and made available separately for study. This use of MOOC-like technology will extend the reach of this discipline to many geographic regions and socio-economic groups that do not have ready access to world-class experts and educators in the field of high performance computing but who would greatly value to extend their educational opportunities in these directions. This course material will provide the foundation for a future Indiana University course giving transferable credit for having taken this course.

科学和工程的进步越来越依赖于有效地使用高性能计算机来模拟物理现象和分析实验数据。然而，在超级计算的开发和应用方面，美国的专家相对较少；尽管国家需求和国际竞争日益加剧了美国在这一领域的能力。满足国家在高性能计算领域的需求的关键是随时可以接受优质教育，以培养未来的计算科学家、计算机科学家、设计工程师以及世界上最强大的计算机的应用、开发和管理方面的系统管理员。作为一个整体，高性能计算领域包括许多专门领域。但它们都有着共同的、相互关联的基础。该项目正在开发一门新的大学级别的高性能计算课程，作为所有希望进入该领域的入门级入门课程。新的教学大纲介绍了参与高性能计算相关活动的每个人所需的概念、知识和技能。以一种紧密协同的方式，与并行编程接口、超级计算机体系结构、应用程序和并行算法以及软件环境和工具有关的单独主题将在大约24个讲座中结合在一个相互支持的演讲中。学生通过动手编程示例和独立练习来熟悉这些材料，以获得方法和工具的经验，并接触到系统操作行为对一系列替代方法和用例的敏感性。还分享了该领域的文化方面，包括广泛的领域特定术语、丰富的历史以及关键的领导机构和人员。完成这门高强度的一年级研究生(和高级)大学课程的学生将能够进入高级专业领域，接受工业和国家实验室的初级职位，这些职位对完成他们的使命或准备指导未来国内教育机构的此类课程至关重要。本课程将通过以高清晰度数字视频记录并在线和按需提供给所有希望观看讲座的人来实现尽可能广泛的传播和影响。这些材料被组织成每个5到11分钟的简短片段，很容易查看和审查，以获得最佳的教育体验。讲座所指向的详细幻灯片被编辑成视频流，并单独提供供学习。这种类似MOOC技术的使用将把这门学科的影响范围扩展到许多地理区域和社会经济群体，这些地区和社会经济群体无法随时接触到高性能计算领域的世界级专家和教育工作者，但他们将非常有价值地在这些方向上扩大他们的教育机会。本课程材料将为印第安纳大学未来的课程奠定基础，为选修这门课程提供可转授的学分。