HPC Education Through Formal On-line On-Demand Curriculum

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，美国在超级计算的开发和应用方面的专家相对较少;即使国家需求和国际竞争越来越强调国家在这一领域的能力。要满足国家在高性能计算领域的需求，关键是要有高质量的教育，以培养未来的计算科学家、计算机科学家、设计工程师以及系统管理员，使他们能够应用、开发和管理世界上最强大的计算机。整个HPC领域包括许多专业领域。但它们都有共同的相互关联的基础。该项目正在开发一个新的大学高性能计算课程，作为所有希望进入该领域的入门级介绍。新的教学大纲提出了概念，知识和技能所需的每个人谁将从事与高性能计算相关的活动。在一个紧密的协同方式，有关并行编程接口，超级计算机体系结构，应用程序和并行算法，软件环境和工具的单独主题结合在一个相互支持的演示文稿在大约二十多个讲座。学生通过动手编程示例和独立练习熟悉材料，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。该领域的文化方面也是共享的，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。谁已经完成了这个紧张的第一年毕业生的学生（和高级高级）大学课程将能够继续进行到专业化的高级领域，接受行业和国家实验室的入门级职位，计算对于履行其使命至关重要，或准备在家庭教育机构指导未来的此类课程。本课程将尽可能广泛地传播，通过录制高清晰度数字视频，并在线和点播提供给所有希望观看讲座的人，这些材料被组织成5到11分钟的短片段，很容易查看和审查，以获得最佳的教育体验。讲座所针对的详细幻灯片被编辑到视频流中，并单独提供用于学习。这种类似MOOC的技术的使用将把这门学科的范围扩展到许多地理区域和社会经济群体，这些地区和群体在高性能计算领域没有现成的世界级专家和教育工作者，但他们非常重视在这些方向上扩展他们的教育机会。本课程材料将为将来印第安纳州大学的课程提供基础，并为选修本课程的学生提供可转让的学分。

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.