The Experiencing HPC for Undergraduates program gives undergraduate students at the sophomore level and above an introduction to HPC research topics and techniques. The program introduces various aspects of HPC research at the SC17 conference to participants to give them a better understanding of opportunities to perform research as an undergraduate and potentially in graduate school. This information is also useful in deciding on career options related to HPC topics in computer science and computational science.
The program contains selected parts of the main SC Technical Program, with several additional elements. Special sessions include panels with current graduate students in HPC areas to discuss graduate school and research, and panels with senior HPC researchers from universities, government and industrial labs to discuss career opportunities in HPC fields.
The program covers travel expenses for students to attend SC17, including air travel, housing, and registration for the full Technical Program and workshops at the conference.
Schedule.
All the sessions will take place in room 701 of the Colorado Convention Center.
Experiencing HPC for Undergraduates Opening
Reception
2-3 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13
This session is a “meet and greet” for students in the program
and HPC for Undergraduates Chair Erik Saule.
Experiencing HPC for Undergraduates Orientation
3 – 5 p.m. Monday, Nov. 13
This session will provide an introduction to HPC for the
participants in the HPC for Undergraduates Program. Topics
will include an introduction to MPI, shared memory
programming, domain decomposition and the typical structure of
scientific programming.
Presenter:
*Erik Saule, University of North Carolina
Charlotte
Experiencing HPC for Undergraduates: Introduction to HPC
Research
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 14
A panel of leading practitioners in HPC will introduce the
various aspects of HPC, including architecture, applications,
programming models and tools.
The speakers are:
*Manish Parashar, Rutgers, the State
University of New Jersey
*John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory
*Martin Schulz, Technical University of
Munich
*Chris Johnson, University of Utah
Experiencing HPC for Undergraduates: Graduate Student
Perspective
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m., Wednesday, Nov. 15
This session will be held as a panel discussion. Current
graduate students, some of whom are candidates for the Best
Student Paper Award in the Technical Papers program at SC17
will discuss their experiences in being a graduate student in
an HPC discipline. They will also talk about the process of
writing their award-nominated paper.
The speakers are:
*Danilo Carastan-Santos, Federal University
of ABC
*Amir Gholami, University of California
Berkeley
*Amalee Wilson, University of Alabama at
Birmingham
*Yasodhadevi Nachimuthu, Portland State
University
*Kellon Belfon, Stony Brook University
*Klaudius Scheufele, University of Stuttgart
Experiencing HPC for Undergraduates: Careers in HPC
10:30 a.m. – 12 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 16
This panel will feature a number of distinguished members of
the HPC research community discussing their varied career
paths. The panel includes representatives from industry,
government labs and universities. The session will include
ample time for questions from the audience.
The panel members are:
*Steve Poole, Open Source Software
Solution
*Swann Perarneau, Argonne National
Laboratory
*Daniel Katz, National Center for
Supercomputing Applications
*Dorian Arnold, Emory University
*Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of
Delaware
*Michael Wolfe, NVIDIA
Email Contact: hpcundergrads@info.supercomputing.org
