TY - GEN
T1 - FutureGrid education
T2 - 1st Conference of the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment: Bridging from the eXtreme to the Campus and Beyond, XSEDE12
AU - Mitchell, Jerome E.
AU - Qiu, Judy
AU - Canonio, Massimo
AU - Jha, Shantenu
AU - Hayden, Linda
AU - O'Leary, Barbara Ann
AU - Figueiredo, Renato
AU - Fox, Geoffrey
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The shift to parallel computing - including multi-core computer architectures, cloud distributed computing, and generalpurpose GPU programming - leads to fundamental changes in the design of software and systems. As a result, learning parallel, distributed, and cloud techniques in order to allow software to take advantage of the shift toward parallelism is of important significance. To this end, FutureGrid, an experimental testbed for cloud, grids, and high performance computing, provides a resource for anyone to find, share, and discuss modular teaching materials and computational platform supports. This paper presents a series of case studies for experiences in parallel and distributed education using the FutureGrid testbed. Building on previous experiences from courses, workshops, and summer schools associated with FutureGrid, we present a viable solution to developing a curriculum by leveraging collaboration with organizations. Our approach to developing a successful guide stems from the idea of anyone interested in learning parallel and distributing computing can do so with minimum assistance from a domain expert, and it addresses the educational goals and objectives to help meet many challenges, which lie ahead in the discipline. We validate our approach to developing a community driven curriculum by providing use cases and their experiences with the teaching modules. Examples of some use cases include the following: hosting a workshop for faulty members of historically black colleges and universities, courses in distributed and cloud computing at universities, such as Indiana University, Louisiana State University, and the University of Piemonte Orientale.
AB - The shift to parallel computing - including multi-core computer architectures, cloud distributed computing, and generalpurpose GPU programming - leads to fundamental changes in the design of software and systems. As a result, learning parallel, distributed, and cloud techniques in order to allow software to take advantage of the shift toward parallelism is of important significance. To this end, FutureGrid, an experimental testbed for cloud, grids, and high performance computing, provides a resource for anyone to find, share, and discuss modular teaching materials and computational platform supports. This paper presents a series of case studies for experiences in parallel and distributed education using the FutureGrid testbed. Building on previous experiences from courses, workshops, and summer schools associated with FutureGrid, we present a viable solution to developing a curriculum by leveraging collaboration with organizations. Our approach to developing a successful guide stems from the idea of anyone interested in learning parallel and distributing computing can do so with minimum assistance from a domain expert, and it addresses the educational goals and objectives to help meet many challenges, which lie ahead in the discipline. We validate our approach to developing a community driven curriculum by providing use cases and their experiences with the teaching modules. Examples of some use cases include the following: hosting a workshop for faulty members of historically black colleges and universities, courses in distributed and cloud computing at universities, such as Indiana University, Louisiana State University, and the University of Piemonte Orientale.
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U2 - 10.1145/2335755.2335859
DO - 10.1145/2335755.2335859
M3 - Conference contribution
SN - 9781450316026
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the XSEDE12 Conference
Y2 - 16 July 2012 through 19 July 2012
ER -