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

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