Extending access to HPC skills through a blended online course

Steven I. Gordon; James Demmel; Lizanne Destefano; Lorna Rivera

doi:10.1145/2792745.2792760

Extending access to HPC skills through a blended online course

Steven I. Gordon, James Demmel, Lizanne Destefano, Lorna Rivera

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Abstract

Extending expertise in parallel computing is critical to all those using high performance computing to gain insights into science and engineering problems. Many campuses do not offer such a course because of course load limits, a lack of faculty expertise, and/or lack of access to appropriate computing resources. MOOCs for this type of course are difficult to scale both because of constraints on computing resources as well as the need for individual attention with programming problems. Using a blended online course with collaborating faculty that offer academic credit for their students, we have been able to facilitate course participation at many institutions that might not otherwise have covered the topic. This has had a significant benefit for both the faculty and students. Our paper summarizes the nature of these impacts and offers some insights on best practices for extending technical courses to multiple institutions.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the XSEDE 2015 Conference
Subtitle of host publication	Scientific Advancements Enabled by Enhanced Cyberinfrastructure
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450337205
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2792745.2792760
State	Published - Jul 26 2015
Event	4th Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, XSEDE 2015 - St. Louis, United States Duration: Jul 26 2015 → Jul 30 2015

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Name	ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
Volume	2015-July

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Other	4th Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, XSEDE 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	St. Louis
Period	7/26/15 → 7/30/15

Keywords

High performance computing
Online learning
Parallel programming

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computer Networks and Communications

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Gordon, S. I., Demmel, J., Destefano, L., & Rivera, L. (2015). Extending access to HPC skills through a blended online course. In Proceedings of the XSEDE 2015 Conference: Scientific Advancements Enabled by Enhanced Cyberinfrastructure [a15] (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 2015-July). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2792745.2792760

Extending access to HPC skills through a blended online course. / Gordon, Steven I.; Demmel, James; Destefano, Lizanne et al.

Proceedings of the XSEDE 2015 Conference: Scientific Advancements Enabled by Enhanced Cyberinfrastructure. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. a15 (ACM International Conference Proceeding Series; Vol. 2015-July).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Gordon, SI, Demmel, J, Destefano, L & Rivera, L 2015, Extending access to HPC skills through a blended online course. in Proceedings of the XSEDE 2015 Conference: Scientific Advancements Enabled by Enhanced Cyberinfrastructure., a15, ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, vol. 2015-July, Association for Computing Machinery, 4th Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, XSEDE 2015, St. Louis, United States, 7/26/15. https://doi.org/10.1145/2792745.2792760

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