Course (1 day): K12 Introduction High Performance and Cloud Computing

Project Information

Discipline
Computer Science (401) 
Orientation
Education 
Abstract

In a one day activity we are introducing to twelf K-12 students from the West Lafayette high school system concepts from high performance and cloud computing. The agenda of this day activity is including in the mornng two presentations. One about HIgh Performance computing, the other is about cloud computing. After visiting the compute center at Purdue University, the afternoon will be focussing on a number of Lab sessions.

  1. Participants wil be given a computer to install Linux on it
  2. The computer will have a copy of Maya on it
  3. Students can experiment with creating a scene and rendering it
  4. Through observation students will find t takes a long time, however when using a parallel computer multiple images can be rendered at the same time
  5. Students will be using susestudio.com to create an image with blender on it
  6. Students will be able to add their own software preferences to the image created with susestudio
  7. Students will be able to testdrive the image on the Suse cloud.
  8. Students have the ability to take the knowledge home and learn about blender to use the susecloud to render their images.
Students will be presented with a certificate of attendance

Intellectual Merit

This course will be introducing elementary concepts of High Performance and Cloud Computing to students.

Broader Impacts

This is an activity to raise awareness about details of HPC and clouds on the highschool level. Knowledge is generally restricted to the use of e-mail in the cloud or a single PC.

Project Contact

Project Lead
Thomas Hacker (tjhacker) 
Project Manager
Natasha Nikolaidis (nnikolai) 
Project Members
Thomas Hacker, Jason St. John, Gregor von Laszewski, Natasha Nikolaidis  

Resource Requirements

Hardware System
  • I don't care (what I really need is a software environment and I don't care where it runs)
 
Use of FutureGrid

Originally we wanted to use FG, but decided to use Susestudio instead as it is more suitable for small scale experiments in the cloud. For the HPC portion a cluster at Purdue was used.

Scale of Use

none as we use susestudio

Project Timeline

Submitted
10/08/2012 - 10:21 
Completed
11/08/2012 
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