Earlham's Cluster Computing Group attended the the annual SuperComputing conference, SC11, in Seattle recently. SC is one of the world's largest gathering of people who work in high performance computing and computation and data enabled science and engineering. It is sometimes described as Burning Man for geeks, this year about 12,000 of them. Ivan Babic, Mobeen Ludin and Charlie Peck were there for a week working and eating with Skylar Thompson, Andrew Fitz Gibbon, and Aaron Weeden among others. They also saw Josh Hursey and Ian McKinney.
While at the conference they were primarily working on the LittleFe and BCCD projects (http://LittleFe.net, http:BCCD.net), the appliance for parallel and distributed computing education. During the conference the LittleFe project, in the face of Charlie Peck, was awarded the 2012 Undergraduate Computational Engineering and Sciences (UCES) Award by the Krell Institute and the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Science. The purpose of the UCES Award program is to recognize undergraduate faculty who have recently developed courses, programs, and/or curricular material for computation and data enabled science and engineering.
Posted by jrhurst08 at November 23, 2011 10:00 PM