• Overview
• SC07 Logistics
• Education Schedule
• Poster Session
• Session Materials
• Student Days Program
• Student Competition
• Learning & Physical Challenges
Student Days Program
The Student Days Program will consist of a series of activities and talks for undergraduate and graduate students to visit while attending the SC07 Conference. These may include talks and panels about careers and research opportunities in high performance computing, important job and student skills, and information about graduate school.
This program will be open to all students attending the conference. Although the Student Volunteers program is not a part of SC Education, student volunteers are encouraged to participate.
Students involved with the Student Days Program are also encouraged to apply for the Student Competition.
Monday, November 12, 2007
| 5:00 - 6:00 | E1-2-3 | Computational Science, A Better Model for Science Education? Rubin Landau, Angela Shiflet, Jose Munoz, Bob Panoff, Brent Gorda, Yan Xu, Tom Murphy, et al. A free-wheeling discussion to gravitate towards a definition of computational science education, why it should be taught, whether it is a better model for science education than the traditional ones, and how it may be incorporated into an already-full curriculum. The audience is a valued member of panel with additional input from those in the trenches. |
Tuesday, November 13, 2007
| 10:00 - 11:00 | D9 | Being Prepared to Seize Opportunities Yan Xu, Microsoft Research The practice of science is going through a significant transformation due to rapid advances in computational technologies. It opens new education and career opportunities at intersections of multiple disciplines including Computer Science, natural sciences, social sciences, and liberal arts. In this talk, Dr. Xu will share her experience of how to land a career position better than dreamed. She will discuss how to prepare for a career opportunity, some of the key job interview techniques, and introduce a new interdisciplinary research program in education at Microsoft Research: Computational Education for Scientists. |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | D9 | Blue Collar Computing Ashok Krishnamurthy, Ohio Supercomputer Center's Director of Research |
| 3:30 - 5:00 | Meet in Ed Booth | Mysteries of the Conference Floor Explained Charlie Peck, Earlham College Overview of the Conference Floor:
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
| 10:00 - 11:00 | D7 | Supercomputing in Plain English: Overview Henry Neeman, OU Supercomputing Center for Education & Research What is supercomputing? What is it used for? How does it work? In this one-hour presentation, we'll learn everything important about supercomputing, with nothing left out -- and in a way that everyone from grade school kids to your grandparents can understand. |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | D7 | Internships at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and Beyond Laura McGinnis, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center Post-secondary and corporate programs in science and engineering have traditionally made good use of internship opportunities to identify, mentor and develop students in their specialties. Computer and computational sciences, especially in academia and research laboratories may not be making as effective use of internship opportunities. Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center has had a long tradition of engaging undergraduate students from local universities to participate in day to day operations and research activities with a great rate of success. This session will present the PSC internship program, from both the students’ and Center’s perspective, including examples of the work that PSC students are doing to advance scientific computing as well as resource support. We will provide an opportunity for students, supervisors, and other interested people to talk about internship opportunities and offering pre-service opportunities to high school and college students. Discussions will focus on sharing successful strategies for capitalizing on the enthusiasm and availability of the next wave of scientists and technologists. |
| 1:00 - 2:00 | D7 | HPC Tuning & Parallel Computing in Plain English Paul Gray, SC08 Education Program Chair If history be our guide, today's high-performance computing (HPC) hardware and software will be on desktop machines in less than a decade, and so now's a good time to learn about about using them. Depending on the coverage of the previous talk, we may start with some concrete exercises that explore how a high-performance computer's memory and central processor design affects program execution. We then will examine parallel computers, both their promise and their shortcomings, from a practitioner's point of view. Some non-detailed examples of the use of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) package will aim to demonstrate the basic concepts behind this very popular form of parallel computing. |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | D7 | Anatomy of a LittleFe Charlie Peck, Earlham College All the details related to the design and construction of a LittleFe, a six-node cluster in a suitcase. What's it made of? How does it work? How can I make my own? |
| 4:00 - 5:00 | D7 | The TeraGrid, its Staff, and Student Opportunities Nancy Wilkins-Diehr of SDSC- Moderator, Kelly Gaither of TACC, Scott Lathrop of ANL, Shaun Brown of PSC, Craig Stewart of IU, Ray Sheppard of Indiana U, Krishna Muriki of SDSC, Laura McGuinnis of PSC, Diglio Simoni of RTI, Randy Heiland of Indiana U, Michael Oberg of UCAR, Daniel S. Katz of ISU, Conrad Steenberg of CalTech and Gabrielle Allen of LSU The TeraGrid is one of the flagship programs of the National Science Foundation's Office of Cyberinfrastructure. Come hear about the program from a panel of staffers from throughout the project. We will talk about our day-to-day activities, what training and education lead us to where we are now and student opportunities that are available at our institutions. Please join us! |
Thursday, November 14, 2007
| 10:00 - 11:00 | D10 | TeraGrid Student Competition Opportunities Jessie Bemley Overview of the requirements of the three student competitions held at TeraGrid. There are seven categories (high school through graduate) spread across the competitions. So come to see how you can participate to win money, iPods, and crystal awards. Meet the students who won the prizes. |
| 11:00 - 12:00 | D10 | Technologies on the HPC Horizon Stephen Wheat, Intel Intel has been at the forefront of the HPC revolution as evidenced by the number of Intel-based systems on the Top 500 (www.top500.org). As Intel's strength in silicon process technology continues to accomplish "Moore's Law", we anticipate future transistor budgets that will avail great levels of performance at the processor, node, and system levels. Come learn of Intel in HPC as well as some pointers on the experience and knowledge you will need for a successful career at Intel and other HPC companies. |
| 3:00 - 4:00 | D10 | The ACME Opportunity Tom Murphy, Kristina Wanous, et al In general, this is about recognizing ways to collaborate with faculty and the benefits of these collaborations. In particular, it is about your opportunity to collaborate with the ACME effort, Aadvancing Computational Science Education. ACME is the LittleFe (portable educational cluster) hardware effort, the BCCD (bootable cluster CD) software effort, and the CSERD (Computational Science Education REference Desk) curricular effort. Note that this Student Days program, and the larger SC07 Educational Program, are powered by ACME folk. |
