[ACM Press the eleventh ACM SIGPLAN symposium - New York, New York, USA (2006.03.29-2006.03.31)] Proceedings of the eleventh ACM SIGPLAN symposium on Principles and practice of parallel programming - PPoPP '06 - Teaching parallel computing to science faculty

✍ Scribed by Joiner, David A.; Gray, Paul; Murphy, Thomas; Peck, Charles

• Book ID: 121849512
• Publisher: ACM Press
• Year: 2006
• Weight: 111 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN-13: 9781595931894
• DOI: 10.1145/1122971.1123007

✦ Synopsis

In 2002, we first brought High Performance Computing (HPC) methods to the college classroom as a way to enrich Computational Science education. Through the years, we have continued to facilitate college faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines to stay current with HPC methodologies. We have accomplished this by designing and delivering faculty workshops, hosted in a variety of lab settings, as well as by developing tools supporting the technical infrastructure necessary for HPC education, all this without requiring access to traditional HPC computing platforms. In all, we have so far presented 16 professional development workshops for close to 400 predominantly undergraduate STEM faculty. This paper presents the result of internal formative evaluation by workshop instructors and the materials and tools developed during that process.