A consortium to promote distributed computing
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Abstract
We have been funded by the University of North Carolina Office of the President [1] to establish a consortium to promote high performance computing at comprehensive universities throughout the state [2]. Seven courses were offered twice each over a two year period; students attended remotely via the North Carolina Research and Education Network (NCREN). Local clusters of eight or more computers were established at the twelve universities in the consortium. A prime focus was to promote undergraduate research. In this paper we report on the outcomes of these efforts.
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UNC Campuses Partnerships Awarded Computing Grants, http://www.northcarolina.edu/content.php/pres/news/releases/pr20 04/20040514c.htm
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Kurtz, B. and Tashakkori, R. A Consortium to Promote Computational Science and High Performance Computing, $650,000, started 7/01/2004, http://www.cs.appstate.edu/nc-hpc/
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Holliday, M., Wilkinson, B., House, J. Daoud, S. and Ferner, C., "A Geographically-Distributed, Assignment-Structured Undergraduate Grid Computing Course", Proc. of the 36th ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium, Saint Louis, MO, February, 2005, pp. 206--210.
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Holliday, M. A. Wilkinson, B., and Ruff, J., "Using an End-to-End Demonstration in an Undergraduate Grid Computing Course," ACMSE 2006: 44th ACM Southeast Conference, March 10--12, 2006, Melbourne, Florida.
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