2018 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHPC)最新文献

SMPI Courseware: Teaching Distributed-Memory Computing with MPI in Simulation SMPI课件:基于MPI的分布式内存计算仿真教学

2018 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHPC) Pub Date : 2018-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/EduHPC.2018.00006

H. Casanova, Arnaud Legrand, M. Quinson, F. Suter

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引用次数: 6

Peachy Parallel Assignments (EduHPC 2018) 并行作业(EduHPC 2018)

2018 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHPC) Pub Date : 2018-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/EduHPC.2018.00012

E. Ayguadé, Lluc Alvarez, Fabio Banchelli, Martin Burtscher, Arturo González-Escribano, Julian Gutierrez, D. Joiner, D. Kaeli, Fritz G. Previlon, Eduardo Rodriguez-Gutiez, David P. Bunde

引用次数: 6

Evaluating the Wide Area Classroom after 10,500 HPC Students 10500名HPC学生后的广域教室评估

2018 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHPC) Pub Date : 2018-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/EduHPC.2018.00009

J. Urbanic, T. Maiden

引用次数: 2

Jupyter Notebooks and User-Friendly HPC Access Jupyter笔记本和用户友好的HPC访问

2018 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHPC) Pub Date : 2018-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/EduHPC.2018.00005

Ben Glick, Jens Mache

引用次数: 10

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

2018 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHPC) Pub Date : 2018-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/EduHPC.2018.00008

Fabio Banchelli, F. Mantovani

引用次数: 5

Teaching HPC Systems and Parallel Programming with Small-Scale Clusters 小型集群的HPC系统和并行编程教学

2018 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHPC) Pub Date : 2018-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/EduHPC.2018.00004

Lluc Alvarez, E. Ayguadé, F. Mantovani

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引用次数: 13

A One Year Retrospective on a MOOC in Parallel, Concurrent, and Distributed Programming in Java 《Java并行、并发和分布式编程MOOC一年回顾》

2018 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHPC) Pub Date : 2018-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/EduHPC.2018.00010

Vivek Sarkar, M. Grossman, Zoran Budimlic, S. Imam

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2018 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHPC) Pub Date : 2018-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/eduhpc.2018.00001

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Employing Student Retention Strategies for an Introductory GPU Programming Course 在GPU编程入门课程中运用学生留存策略

2018 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHPC) Pub Date : 2018-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/EduHPC.2018.00007

Julian Gutierrez, Fritz G. Previlon, D. Kaeli

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Towards Developing a Repository of Logical Errors Observed in Parallel Code for Teaching Code Correctness 开发并行代码中观察到的逻辑错误存储库以教授代码正确性

2018 IEEE/ACM Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing (EduHPC) Pub Date : 2018-11-01 DOI: 10.1109/EduHPC.2018.00011

Trung Nguyen Ba, R. Arora

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