SuperQuest

该奖项支持康奈尔国家超级计算设施(CNSF)的第二个SuperQuest计划。CNSF是一个由NSF支持的机构，为科学研究人员提供访问时间、教育、培训和用户咨询服务。第一个SuperQuest项目于1989年举行，由NSF和IBM共同出资。SuperQuest计划旨在鼓励高中阶段的计算科学和工程。来自全国各地学校的教师和学生团队将竞争参加一个全面的培训/教育计划。将选出四所学校。该项目的核心是康奈尔大学一个为期三周的学院。教师和他们的学生团队将被介绍给康奈尔大学的超级计算环境，并接受FORTRAN(主要的科学计算机语言)、科学计算机代码的优化、并行计算的使用以及使用计算机图形学将结果可视化的深入培训。此外，知名计算科学家和工程师将在该研究所授课。在研究所结束时，由团队代表的学校将分别收到IBM工作站的配置，这些工作站通过NSFnet与CNSF建立通信链路。在学生和老师回到自己的家乡学校后，康奈尔大学的工作人员将在明年至少两次访问每所学校，进行后续培训。康奈尔大学的一名工作人员将被指派为每所学校的指定顾问，每所学校将获得康奈尔大学分配的超级计算资源，供来年继续使用。SuperQuest计划旨在刺激计算科学及其工具融入高中科学，并从长远来看，对提高和扩大美国学生的教育目标具有深远影响。

This award supports the second SuperQuest program at the Cornell National Supercomputing Facility (CNSF). The CNSF is an NSF supported facility providing access time, education, training and user consulting services to scientific researchers. The first SuperQuest program was held in 1989 and was co-funded by NSF and IBM. The SuperQuest program is intended to encourage computational science and engineering at the high school level. Teams of teachers and students from schools around the nation will compete to participate in a comprehensive training/education program. Four schools will be chosen. The centerpiece of the program is a three-week institute at Cornell. The teachers and their teams of students will be introduced to the Cornell supercomputing environment, and receive in-depth training in FORTRAN (the primary scientific computer language), optimization of scientific computer codes, the use of parallel computing, and the use of computer graphics to visualize results. In addition, well-known computational scientists and engineers will lecture at the institute. At the end of the institute, the schools represented by the teams will each receive a configuration of IBM workstations with communication links through NSFnet to the CNSF. After the students and teachers have returned to their home schools, Cornell staff persons will visit each school at least twice over the next year to conduct follow-up training. A Cornell staff person will be assigned as a designated consultant for each school, and each school will be given an allocation of supercomputing resources at Cornell for continued use over the coming year. The SuperQuest program is intended to stimulate the integration of computational science and its tools into high school science and in the long-run have far-reaching effects in enhancing and extending the educational goals of American students.