Enriching Computing Curricula through HPC Teaching and Research

通过 HPC 教学和研究丰富计算课程

• 批准号: 1332566
• 负责人: Suxia Cui
• 金额: $ 39.98万
• 依托单位: Prairie View A & M University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-07-01 至 2020-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1332566&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Enriching; Computing; Curricula; through; HPC

The goal of this project at Prairie View A&M University is to improve undergraduate computing education through enhanced courses and research opportunities that incorporate high performance computing (HPC) training that will stimulate students' interest in computing and strengthen their computational problem-solving skills. This project leverages faculty expertise, institutional commitment, industry and federal support to elevate students' computing-related skills and education.This project is a collaboration of faculty members from three departments - Electrical & Computer Engineering, Computer Science, and Engineering Technology - to develop a diverse high performance computing environment and use it to improve HPC-related education and training at the institution. Six courses will be redesigned to include both embedded and cluster HPC platforms and integrate research topics of the project faculty members. In addition, faculty members will develop new courses in the areas of parallel computing, machine learning, and computer vision. The proposed HPC platforms can easily be expanded to support other disciplines in science technology, engineering, and mathematics. This project addresses a national need to provide trained graduates in the computing sciences in order to help the U.S. retain its technological competitiveness. Almost 500 undergraduate students, the majority of whom are African American, will be impacted during the three project years. Each year, high school teachers and university faculty members will receive training. Research data, source code, and curriculum materials generated by this project will be posted online and disseminated in conferences and publications for the research and educational community.

Prairie View A&M 大学该项目的目标是通过增强课程和研究机会来改善本科计算机教育，其中包括高性能计算 (HPC) 培训，从而激发学生对计算的兴趣并增强他们解决计算问题的技能。该项目利用教师的专业知识、机构承诺、行业和联邦政府的支持来提高学生的计算相关技能和教育。该项目是来自三个系（电气与计算机工程、计算机科学和工程技术）的教师成员的合作，旨在开发多样化的高性能计算环境，并用它来改善机构中与 HPC 相关的教育和培训。 六门课程将重新设计，包括嵌入式和集群 HPC 平台，并整合项目教师的研究主题。此外，教师还将开发并行计算、机器学习和计算机视觉领域的新课程。所提出的 HPC 平台可以轻松扩展以支持科学技术、工程和数学等其他学科。该项目满足了国家对提供经过培训的计算机科学毕业生的需求，以帮助美国保持其技术竞争力。近 500 名本科生（其中大多数是非裔美国人）将在项目的三个年份中受到影响。每年，高中教师和大学教员都会接受培训。 该项目生成的研究数据、源代码和课程材料将在线发布，并在研究和教育界的会议和出版物中传播。