Lowering Barriers into HPC through Open Education
Author/Presenters
Event Type
Workshop
Education
TimeMonday, November 13th11:50am -
12:15pm
Location505
DescriptionIn this paper, we describe a trilogy of Massive Open
Online Courses (MOOCs) that together expose knowledge
and skills of fundamental importance to HPC. Linear
Algebra: Foundations to Frontiers (LAFF) covers topics
found in an introductory undergraduate course on linear
algebra. It links abstraction in mathematics to
abstraction in programming, with many enrichments that
connect to HPC. LAFF- On Programming for Correctness
introduces how to systematically derive programs to be
correct. Of importance to HPC is that this methodology
yields families of algorithms so that the best one for a
given situation can be chosen. Programming for HPC
(working title) is in the design stage. We envision
using a very simple example, matrix-matrix
multiplication, to illustrate how to achieve performance
on a single core, on multicore and many-core
architectures, and on distributed memory computers.
These materials lower barriers into HPC by presenting
insights, supports, and challenges to novices and HPC
experts while scaling access to the world.
