EduHPC-15: Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing

2:00 - 2:05

Opening Remarks
Sushil Prasad, Georgia State University - Workshop Chair 

Ioana Banicescu, Mississippi State University - Program Chair

2:05 - 3:10

Session I

Chair: Srishti Srivastava, University of Southern Indiana

2:05 - 2:20

OnRamp to Parallel and Distributed Computing.

  Samantha S. Foley and Joshua Hursey   [ppt]

2:20 - 2:35

Student Cluster Competition: A Multi-disciplinary Undergraduate HPC Educational Tool.

  Stephen Harrell, Hai Ah Nam, Veronica Vergara, Kurt Keville and Dan

  Kamalic   [ppt]

2:35 - 2:50

A Problem-Based Learning Approach to GPU Computing.

   Robert Geist, Joshua Levine and James Westall   [ppt]

2:50 - 3:10

Speakers' Panel I

3:10 - 3:30

Coffee Break - (posters on display)

3:30 - 4:10

Session II 

Chair: Ioana Banicescu, Mississippi State University

Keynote Talk: So, you might want to work at a national lab?

Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories

4:10 - 5:10

Session III 

Chair: Charles Weems, University of Massachusetts

4:10 - 4:25 

Auto-Grading for Parallel Programs.

  Maha Aziz, Heng Chi, Anant Tibrewal, Max Grossman and Vivek Sarkar   [ppt]

4:25 - 4:40

REU Site: Bio-Grid Initiatives for Interdisciplinary Research and Education.

  Chun-Hsi Huang   [ppt]

4:40 - 4:55

Introducing High Performance Computing Concepts into Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum: A Success Story.

  Neelima B and Jiajia Li   [ppt]

4:55 - 5:10

Speakers' Panel II

5:10 - 6:00

Session IV

Chair: Sushil Prasad

Posters

Learning Parallel Computations with ParaLab

   Victor Gergel and Anton Shtahyuk   [poster]

Seminars as exceptional vehicle to learn parallel programming

   Rainer Keller   [poster]

Injecting parallel computing into Architecture and Organization course

   Han Wan, Xiaopeng Gao, Xiang Long and Yi Li   [poster]

MapReduce modules for undergraduate instruction

   Weiwei Ge, David J. John, Stan J. Thomas   [poster]

Multi-Semester Effort and Experience to Integrate NSF/IEEE-TCPP PDC into Multiple Department-wide Core Courses of Computer Science and Technology Department at GUPT

   Shanyu Wu, Yunhe Li and Wende Ke   [poster]

Experience of Applying NSF/IEEE TCPP Curriculum Initiative on Parallel and Distributed Computing at College of Staten Island

   Yumei Huo and Feng Gu   [poster]

Incorporate PDC Topics into University Level Digital Computer Principles Class at Jackson State University

    Ali Abu El Humos, Sungbum Hong, Godwin Offiah, Ebrahim Al-Areqi

    and Bernard Aldrich   [poster]

Integration of PDC topics with Various Computer Science and Engineering Undergraduate Courses

    Sandeep Kumar, Manoj Misra, Sudip Roy   [poster]