REU Site: A Passionate on Parallel-A Summer Research Program

这笔资金更新了伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校一个非常成功的CISE本科生研究经验（REU）站点，该站点专注于并行计算。向“并行作为默认值”的过渡将是互联网引入后计算领域的一个重大变化。这种转变的核心挑战是缺乏具有并行性专业知识的人员。这个网站将训练学生并行编程的基础知识，为他们提供以应用为中心的研究经验，向他们展示并行对计算应用程序的定性影响，并帮助他们培养在研究生院取得成功所需的信心。主办机构（UIUC）是著名的并行计算研究中心，将为REU学生提供一个良好的环境来学习并行性在一系列科学和计算问题中的应用。该网站将为30名本科生（三年以上）提供机会，在以应用为中心的研究环境中发展并行编程的基本技能，并建立导师、榜样和同伴网络，为他们提供有关研究、研究职业和研究生院的信息和建议。建立该网站的一个主要动机是提高女性在科学领域的留用率，项目规划部门有各种策略来实现这一目标。项目负责人将传播他们在让女性参与计算机科学研究方面的经验，并鼓励和促进参与项目的学生及其导师发表论文。

This funding renews a highly successful CISE Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign that is focused on parallel computing. The transition to "parallelism as the default" will be a change in the computing landscape of the magnitude of the introduction of the Internet. A central challenge in this transition is a shortage of people with expertise in parallelism. This site will train students in the basics of parallel programming, provide them with application-centric research experiences that demonstrate to them the qualitative impact that parallelism can have on computing applications, and help them develop the confidence that they need to be successful in graduate school. The host institution (UIUC) is well known as a center of parallel computing research and will provide an excellent environment for the REU students to learn about the application of parallelism to a range of scientific and computational problems.This site will provide the opportunity for 30 undergraduate students (over three years) to develop essential skills in parallel programming in an application-focused research context and to develop a network of mentors, role models, and peers to inform and advise them about performing research, careers in research, and graduate school. A major motivation for the site is improving the retention of women in the sciences, and the PIs have various strategies for addressing this goal. The PIs will disseminate what they learn about engaging women in computer science research, and will also encourage and facilitate publication by the participating students and their mentors.