Introducing Novices to Scientific Parallel Computing

Abstract

HPC and Scientic Computing are integral tools for sustaining the growth of scientic research. Additionally, educating future domain scientists and research-focused IT sta about the use of computation to support research is as important as capital expenditures on new resources. The aim of this paper it to describe the parallel computing portion of Purdue University’s HPC seminar series which is used as a tool to introduce students from many non-traditional disciplines to scientic, parallel and high-performance computing.