National Dissemination of HPC Introductory Education through Multimedia

通过多媒体传播HPC入门教育：Thomas SterlingLouisiana州立大学摘要本提案旨在解决高性能计算（HPC）的多学科性质，它对各种科学的影响，以及HPC社区由于在相关子学科受过教育的年轻参与者数量不足而进入该领域的老龄化问题。作为一个跨学科的领域，高性能计算吸引了硬件架构和设计、系统软件、编程语言和工具、并行算法和计算技术等广泛领域的人才。虽然许多大学提供一个或多个这些领域的研究生课程，但缺乏大学水平的课程，在所有组成领域和它们之间的关键相互关系之间提供必要的平衡处理，因为它们有助于协同交付绩效。只有通过这样的跨学科演示，学生才能体验到每个概念组件与其他概念组件之间的相互作用和相互敏感性，这些概念组件决定了影响整体计算能力的因素。路易斯安那州立大学（LSU）正致力于在研究生一年级开设这样一门课程，并将其作为高级选修课。这门使用多媒体的新课程：“高性能计算的概念、方法和手段”的目标是培养新一代的计算机和计算科学家，他们在高性能计算系统的开发、操作和应用方面都是专家，准备好应对这个国家未来对高性能计算能力和专业知识的挑战。

OCI 0634064National Dissemination of HPC Introductory Education through MultimediaPI: Thomas SterlingLouisiana State UniversityAbstractThis proposal is designed to address the multi-disciplinary nature of High Performance Computing (HPC), its impact on various sciences, the graying of the HPC community with its inadequate number of young participants, educated in the relevant sub-disciplines, entering the field. As an interdisciplinary field, HPC engages talents in the broad areas of hardware architecture and design, system software, programming languages and tools, and parallel algorithms and computational techniques. While many universities offer graduate courses in one or more of these areas, there is a dearth of collegiate level courses presenting an essential balanced treatment across all constituent areas and their critical interrelationships as they contribute in synergy to delivered performance. Only through such an interdisciplinary presentation can students experience the interplay and mutual sensitivities of each conceptual component with the others determining the factors that influence the overall resulting computational capability. Louisiana State University (LSU) is undertaking to develop such a course at the first year graduate level and as a senior level elective. The goal of this new course, using multimedia: "High Performance Computing Concepts, Methods, and Means" is to engender a new generation of computer and computational scientists expert in the development, operation, and application of high performance computing systems prepared to address this nation's future challenges demanding capability and expertise in HPC.