Frinkle, KarlMorris, Mike2015-08-172015-08-172014-07-13Mike Morris and Karl Frinkle. 2014. A Three-Semester, Interdisciplinary Approach to Parallel Programming in a Liberal Arts University Setting. In Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, , Article 66 , 7 pages. DOI=10.1145/2616498.2616567 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2616498.2616567http://hdl.handle.net/11244/15522We describe a successful addition of high performance computing (HPC) into a traditional computer science curriculum at a liberal arts university. The approach incorporated a three-semester sequence of courses emphasizing parallel programming techniques, with the final course focusing on a research-level mathematical project that was executed on a TOP500 supercomputer. A group of students with varied programming backgrounds participated in the program. Emphasis was placed on utilizing the Open MPI and CUDA libraries along with parallel algorithm and file I/O analysis.MathematicsComputer Science10.1145/2616498.2616567