Designing a new high performance computing education strategy for professional scientists and engineers
September 13, 2016
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HPEC 2016: IEEE Conf. on High Performance Extreme Computing, 13-15 September 2016.
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Summary
For decades the High Performance Computing (HPC) community has used web content, workshops and embedded HPC scientists to enable practitioners to harness the power of parallel and distributed computing. The most successful approaches, face-to-face tutorials and embedded professionals, don't scale. To create scalable, flexible, educational experiences for practitioners in all phases of a career, from student to professional, we turn to Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs). We detail the conversion of personalized tutorials to a selfpaced online course. In this demonstration, we highlight a course that mimics in-person tutorials by providing personalized paths through content that interleaves theory and practice, to help researchers learn key parallel computing concepts while developing familiarity with their HPC target system.