Filling the gap between education and industry: evidence-based methods for introducing undergraduate students to HPC

Fabio Banchelli, F. Mantovani
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Educational institutions provide in most cases basic theoretical background covering several computational science topics. However, High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) markets require specialized technical profiles. Even the most skilled students are often not prepared to face production HPC applications of thousands of lines nor complex computational frameworks from other disciplines nor heterogeneous multinode machines accessed by hundreds of users. In this paper, we offer an educational package for filling this gap. Leveraging the 4-years experience of the Student Cluster Competition, we present our educational journey together with the lessons learned and the outcomes of our methodology. We show how, in a time span of a semester and an affordable budget, a university can implement an educational package preparing pupils for starting competitive professional careers. Our findings also highlight that 78% of the students exposed to our methods remain within the HPC high-education, research or industry.
填补教育与产业之间的差距:以证据为基础的方法向本科生介绍HPC
教育机构在大多数情况下提供涵盖几个计算科学主题的基础理论背景。然而,高性能计算(HPC)和并行和分布式计算(PDC)市场需要专门的技术配置文件。即使是最熟练的学生通常也没有准备好面对数千行的生产HPC应用程序,也没有准备好面对来自其他学科的复杂计算框架,也没有准备好面对数百个用户访问的异构多节点机器。在本文中,我们提供了一个教育包来填补这一空白。结合学生分组比赛4年的经验,我们将介绍我们的教育历程,以及我们的方法所取得的经验教训和成果。我们展示了一所大学如何在一个学期的时间跨度和负担得起的预算下,实施一整套教育计划,为学生开始有竞争力的职业生涯做好准备。我们的研究结果还强调,接触我们方法的学生中有78%仍在高性能计算高等教育、研究或行业工作。
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