Developing a Hands-On Course Around Building and Testing High Performance Computing Clusters

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dc.contributor.authorMorris, Mike
dc.contributor.authorFrinkle, Karl
dc.date.accessioned2015-08-17T18:39:26Z
dc.date.available2015-08-17T18:39:26Z
dc.date.issued2015-06-01
dc.description.abstractWe describe a successful approach to designing and implementing a High Performance Computing (HPC) class focused on creating competency in building, configuring, programming, troubleshooting, and benchmarking HPC clusters. By coordinating with campus services, we were able to avoid any additional costs to the students or the university. Students built three twelve-unit independently-operating clusters. Working groups were formed for each cluster and they installed the operating system, created users, connected to the campus network and wrote a variety of scripts and parallel programs while documenting the process. We describe how we solved unexpected problems encountered along the way. We illustrate through pre- and post-course surveys that students gained substantial knowledge in fundamental aspects of HPC through the hands-on approach of creating their own clusters.en_US
dc.description.peerreviewYesen_US
dc.description.peerreviewnotesSelection and peer-review under responsibility of the Scientific Programme Committee of ICCS 2015.en_US
dc.identifier.citationKarl Frinkle, Mike Morris, Developing a Hands-On Course Around Building and Testing High Performance Computing Clusters, Procedia Computer Science, Volume 51, 2015, Pages 1907-1916, ISSN 1877-0509, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procs.2015.05.455.
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.procs.2015.05.455en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11244/15523
dc.languageen_USen_US
dc.rights.urihttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050915012636
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectComputer Scienceen_US
dc.subjectMathematicsen_US
dc.subjectHigh Performance Computing
dc.subjectSupercomputing
dc.subjectBeowulf Cluster
dc.subjectHPC
dc.subjectHPC Education
dc.subjectHardware Management
dc.subjectParallel Programming
dc.subjectCluster Operating Systems
dc.subjectCurriculum Development
dc.subjectBCCD
dc.subjectCourse Assessment
dc.titleDeveloping a Hands-On Course Around Building and Testing High Performance Computing Clustersen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
ou.groupOklahoma Supercomputing::General::XSEDE:2014en_US

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