NCCS Continues Outreach Success
Apr 18th, 2008
By Scott Jones
HPC conference brings students, faculty together
Participants of NCCS’s 2008 High Performance Computing and Applications Conference
The NCCS continues to provide quality outreach and education initiatives to the wider HPC community through programs like the High Performance Computing and Applications Conference.
The meeting, hosted by the NCCS, invited undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral students from universities across the southeastern United States to submit posters, abstracts, and papers for peer review. The students’ presentations were then reviewed by a team of volunteers, and the feedback passed on to the students. The purpose of the conference, said Bobby Whitten of the NCCS User Assistance and Outreach Group, was “to provide information that educators can incorporate into their curricula as well as provide students with a foundation in the basics of parallel programming.”
Approximately 12 students and 12 faculty members attended from universities such as Western Kentucky, Clemson, and the Georgia Polytechnic Institute. Presentations included a method for the modeling of galactic collisions and the use of HPC for monitoring and evaluating natural disasters.
“The conference was a great success,” said Whitten. “All of the participants seemed to enjoy the open, friendly environment and the opportunity to share ideas with their peers from various institutions. Faculty members appreciated the opportunity to collaborate on teaching techniques and research possibilities.”
The conference took place April 11–12 at the American Museum of Science and Energy in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.