Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: Implementation: Small: Integrating core CI literacy and skills into university curricula via simulation-driven activities

协作研究：网络培训：实施：小型：通过模拟驱动的活动将核心 CI 素养和技能融入大学课程

• 批准号: 1923621
• 负责人: Henri Casanova
• 金额: $ 26.13万
• 依托单位: University of Hawaii
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1923621&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CyberTraining; Implementation; Small

Scientific and societal progress in the 21st century relies on a large, heterogeneous, and evolving ecosystem of Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) technologies. And yet, most college students graduating today from computing curricula have little exposure to PDC concepts and practices. There is thus an imminent risk that the emerging scientific workforce will be ill-prepared for using and developing those computing infrastructures that are key to progress. Teaching PDC early and effectively in university curricula is notoriously difficult, in part due to the need to provide students with access to and meaningful hands-on learning opportunities on actual PDC platforms. This project addresses this challenge directly by relying on simulation technology: it provides students with hands-on learning opportunities that do not require access to any PDC platforms. This makes it possible to teach the full gamut of PDC conceptual and practical topics effectively and at any higher education institution in the nation. The pedagogic activities being developed in this project can be integrated into existing university courses and also provide a sound basis for developing new courses, starting at freshman levels. By supporting education in a view to modernizing the scientific workforce, this project promotes the progress of science, as stated by NSF's mission.Years of Cyberinfrastructure research and development have resulted in a rich set of abstractions and interoperable software implementations that can leverage a wide range of hardware platforms. It is crucial to provide students with hands-on pedagogic activities through which they can acquire the PDC conceptual and practical knowledge necessary for them to join a workforce that develops and uses this Cyberinfrastructure. Requiring that these activities be conducted on actual hardware and software stacks limits participation because only few institutions have access to secure representative, stable, and possibly large deployments that can be used for educational purposes. The main insight behind this work is that simulation promotes both participation and pedagogy because it allows students to experience arbitrary Cyberinfrastructure scenarios, only requiring that they have access to a standard laptop computer. This is feasible due to the recent development of simulation frameworks for easily developing simulators of complex distributed systems that afford simulations that are both pedagogically accurate and scalable. Given this insight and this recent development, this project develops simulation-driven interactive pedagogic activities for a spectrum of Student Learning Objectives (SLOs), ranging from standard PDC SLOs as well as SLOs relevant to current and emerging Cyberinfrastructure practices. The activities are organized in modules with a prerequisite structure, and come with guidelines for integration into existing university courses, starting at freshman levels. Several pedagogic strategies are employed through which students execute interactive simulations with configurable levels of details along various narrative paths. Research questions include determining which strategies, with which levels of simulation details, work best for which SLOs.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

21 世纪的科学和社会进步依赖于并行和分布式计算 (PDC) 技术的大型、异构且不断发展的生态系统。然而，今天从计算机课程毕业的大多数大学生很少接触 PDC 概念和实践。 因此，存在着迫在眉睫的风险，即新兴的科学劳动力对于使用和开发那些对进步至关重要的计算基础设施准备不足。 在大学课程中尽早有效地教授 PDC 是出了名的困难，部分原因是需要为学生提供在实际 PDC 平台上获得有意义的实践学习机会。 该项目依靠仿真技术直接应对这一挑战：它为学生提供了无需访问任何 PDC 平台的实践学习机会。这使得在全国任何高等教育机构有效教授 PDC 概念和实践主题的全部内容成为可能。 该项目中正在开发的教学活动可以整合到现有的大学课程中，并为从新生开始开发新课程提供良好的基础。 通过支持教育以实现科学劳动力现代化，该项目促进了科学进步，正如 NSF 的使命所述。多年的网络基础设施研究和开发已经产生了一套丰富的抽象和可互操作的软件实现，可以利用广泛的的硬件平台。为学生提供实践教学活动至关重要，通过这些活动，他们可以获得必要的 PDC 概念和实践知识，从而加入开发和使用此网络基础设施的队伍。 要求这些活动在实际的硬件和软件堆栈上进行会限制参与，因为只有少数机构能够获得可用于教育目的的安全、有代表性、稳定且可能大型的部署。这项工作背后的主要见解是，模拟促进了参与和教学，因为它允许学生体验任意的网络基础设施场景，只需要他们能够访问标准笔记本电脑。 这是可行的，因为最近开发了模拟框架，可以轻松开发复杂分布式系统的模拟器，提供教学上准确且可扩展的模拟。 鉴于这一见解和最近的发展，该项目为一系列学生学习目标 (SLO) 开发了模拟驱动的交互式教学活动，范围从标准 PDC SLO 以及与当前和新兴网络基础设施实践相关的 SLO。 这些活动按照先决条件结构的模块进行组织，并附有从新生开始融入现有大学课程的指南。 采用多种教学策略，学生可以沿着各种叙述路径执行具有可配置细节级别的交互式模拟。 研究问题包括确定哪种策略、哪种级别的模拟细节最适合哪种 SLO。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Peachy Parallel Assignments (EduHPC 2020)

桃色并行作业 (EduHPC 2020)

• DOI: 10.1109/eduhpc51895.2020.00012
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: 2020 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHPC
• 作者: Casanova, Henri;Ferreira da Silva, Rafael;Gonzalez-Escribano, Arturo;Koch, William;Torres, Yuri;Bunde, David P.
• 通讯作者: Bunde, David P.

WfBench: Automated Generation of Scientific Workflow Benchmarks

• DOI: 10.1109/pmbs56514.2022.00014
• 发表时间: 2022-10
• 期刊: 2022 IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking and Simulation of High Performance Computer Systems (PMBS)
• 作者: T. Coleman;H. Casanova;K. Maheshwari;L. Pottier;Sean R. Wilkinson;J. Wozniak;F. Suter;M. Shankar;Rafael Ferreira da Silva

Peachy Parallel Assignments (EduHPC 2021)

完美的并行作业 (EduHPC 2021)

• DOI: 10.1109/eduhpc54835.2021.00012
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing
• 作者: Casanova, Henri;Da Silva, Rafael Ferreira;Gonzalez-Escribano, Arturo;Li, Herman;Torres, Yuri;Bunde, David P.
• 通讯作者: Bunde, David P.

Developing accurate and scalable simulators of production workflow management systems with WRENCH

使用 WRENCH 开发生产工作流程管理系统的准确且可扩展的模拟器

• DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2020.05.030
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Future Generation Computer Systems
• 作者: Casanova, Henri;Ferreira da Silva, Rafael;Tanaka, Ryan;Pandey, Suraj;Jethwani, Gautam;Koch, William;Albrecht, Spencer;Oeth, James;Suter, Frédéric
• 通讯作者: Suter, Frédéric

Teaching parallel and distributed computing concepts in simulation with WRENCH

使用 WRENCH 进行模拟教学并行和分布式计算概念

• DOI: 10.1016/j.jpdc.2021.05.009
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing
• 影响因子: 3.8
• 作者: Casanova, Henri;Tanaka, Ryan;Koch, William;Ferreira da Silva, Rafael
• 通讯作者: Ferreira da Silva, Rafael