Workstation Laboratory for New Undergraduate Curriculum in Massively Parallel Computing

这个项目是为大规模并行计算的新的跨学科本科课程序列建立一个专业工作站实验室，该课程将于今年在国家科学基金会CDR/CISE的支持下推出。该实验室将在高性能图形工作站网络上配备先进的软件工具，学生将从该网络访问大学的大规模并行计算机。选择这些工作站是因为它们的计算速度和3D图形功能。除了基本软件包（包括C、c++、Pascal、FORTRAN、X11和Motif）外，pi还计划提供Mathematica、Linda和ID，以确保专业高性能计算环境的全套工具。这些工作站将用于访问CM-5综合体，用于连接机计算和结果的可视化，用于程序开发，用于数据准备和分析，以及用于研究网络分布式计算模型。该实验室将被设计为工作空间和演示/教学环境，旨在通过为与新课程相关的全部门本科活动建立一个中心位置来加强课程的跨学科性质。pi认为，该项目将证明将前沿技术纳入本科教育的可行性，并作为其他教育工作者可以借鉴的原型。

This project is to implement a professional workstation laboratory for the new, interdisciplinary, undergraduate course sequence in massively parallel computing which is being introduced this year with support from the NSF ?CDR/CISE!. The laboratory will be equipped with advanced software tools on a network of high performance graphics workstations from which the students will access the University's massively parallel computer. The workstations have been choosen for their computational speed and 3D graphics capabilities. In addition to the basic software package, which includes C, C++, Pascal, FORTRAN, X11 and Motif, the PIs plan to provide Mathematica, Linda and ID to ensure a full spectrum of tools for a professional high performance computing environment. The workstations will be used to gain access to the CM-5 complex, for the visualization of Connection Machine computations and results, for program development, for data preparation and analysis, and for studying networked distributed computing models. The laboratory, which will be designed to serve as both a workspace and demonstration/teaching environment,is intended to reinforce the interdisciplinary nature of the curriculum by establishing a central location for the full range of interdepartmental undergraduate activity connected with the new curriculum. The PIs believe that this project will demonstrate the viability of incorporating frontier technologies into undergraduate education and serve as a prototype from which other educators can borrow.