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Teaching high performance computing to undergraduate faculty and undergraduate students

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Andrew Fitz Gibbon,

David A. Joiner,

Skylar ThompsonAuthors Info & Claims

TG '10: Proceedings of the 2010 TeraGrid Conference

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1838574.1838581

Published: 02 August 2010 Publication History

Abstract

A growing proportion of Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEM) research is increasingly dependent on Cyberinfrastructure (CI). CI has experienced rapid progress in enabling technologies -- hardware, storage, networking, middleware, tools, libraries -- but much slower improvements in workforce development. Currently, CI consumers tend to lag substantially behind CI capabilities. This paper describes a series of linked efforts to address the gap between the workforce and the technology.

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