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2008 Campus Technology Innovators: High-Performance Computing
8/1/2008
"The Edu-Grid workshop instructors believe that HPC has a huge potential to change many sciences," Gray reports. "Medical, geographical, and energy sciences are areas that will be looked into in the coming years." Yet with HPC resources often difficult to come by, an obvious question to Gray is: How do you select appropriate resources for Edu- Grid? The professor cites educational benefit and ease of replication as the main differentiating factors that influenced technology choices: "Any technology integrated into Edu-Grid had to have a significant educational benefit to its faculty and student consumers. TotalView is a prime example: It is a comprehensive debugging solution that is robust and easy to use, while dramatically enhancing and simplifying the process of debugging Edu-Grid's advanced HPC applications. Other differentiating factors that drove technology choices included the ability for Edu-Grid users to reproduce technologies on their own resources. If scientific software was difficult to deploy or support, it would be difficult to deploy or support at an educator's home institution."
Gray offers a bit of wisdom for educators committed to HPC for their students, and interested in working with Edu- Grid: Be sure to include students at every level of the initiative. "Students learn an incredible amount by being immersed in the hands-on aspects of the project. Faculty also benefit from student inclusion: It leverages their time and allows them to do things students can't tackle yet."
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