Distributed exploratorium for high performance computational techniques

Author

Iyer, Sridhar V. ; Beck, Alan ; Ravaioli, Umberto ; Terstriep, Jeff

Author_Institution

Nat. Center for Supercond. Applic., Illinois Univ., Champaign, IL, USA

fYear

1994

fDate

14-18 Nov 1994

Firstpage

117

Lastpage

125

Abstract

The exploratorium described here consists of hyper-linked tutorials and quizzes on high performance computational concepts and computational modules implemented on different computer systems: desktop workstations, vector and parallel supercomputers. The exploratorium provides a highly interactive environment in which students can experiment with computational modules and visually compare algorithms, numerical techniques, performance and implementation related issues. Such a hands-on simulation and experimentation based learning will enable students to gain a deeper understanding of advanced concepts. The World Wide Web based exploratorium fosters the easy development of instructional material from research software

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; computer science education; hypermedia; interactive systems; Internet; World Wide Web; desktop workstations; experimentation based learning; high performance computational techniques; highly interactive environment; hyper-linked tutorials; instructional material; numerical techniques; parallel supercomputers; simulation; vector supercomputers; Application software; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; High performance computing; Packaging; Programming environments; Supercomputers; Web sites; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Supercomputing '94., Proceedings

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6605-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SUPERC.1994.344271

Filename

344271