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SOW Form - Education Outreach and Training Team - Graduate Student Education

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Project Title : Education Outreach and Training Team - Graduate Student Education
PI : Fox , Geoffrey
Team : EOT Education

Scope of Work :
Project Title: Education Outreach and Training Team - Learnng Technology and Graduate Student Education
Principal Investigator: Geoffrey Fox
Organization: Northeast Parallel Architectures Center(NPAC)
Syracuse University
111 College Place
Syracuse New York 13244-4100
Electronic Mail: gcf@npac.syr.edu Phone:3154432163
Partnership: Illinois(NCSA)

FY 99 Technology Activity within Education
In the technology area, the role of EOT in PACI could be in identifying and packaging web-based education "solutions" (tools) which even for commercial products are typically not easy for teachers and educators to identify and use. These tools could include systems such as WLS and Tango as discussed in detail at recent MRA San Diego workshop and as well as the variety of systems evaluated by OSC (webED) and Prof. O'Keefe from UIUC. We will feature both synchronous and asynchronous tools. This activity could either start or work with the "clearing house" for such tools advocated by Barbara O'Keefe in her MRA workshop talk and in the EUFOTTET charter document. We would work with our PACI partners and organizations such as CILT ADL and IMS to identify tools and what is needed to integrate them. We will similarly identify through partners appropriate "early adopters" who could use and evaluate these toolkits. Assessment would be an important component here that would naturally involve NPACI. We will of course work with ET teams B and C for they are working in areas such as Quality of Service, high-quality digital video servers and collaboration. (Most of these technology projects are linked to http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/petcandt/index.html.)
This work should certainly cross all parts of EOT and involve universal access issues as well as of course all the communities

FY 99 Graduate Activity in Collaborative Computational Science and Internetics Curricula This activity is centered on packaging innovative leading edge curricula in the way illustrated by CDROM we produced as part of DoD modernization program. Packaged curricula can be made available by the web and selective CD-ROMs. We will also include selective deployment in order to evaluate material. The tool activity above is naturally quite broad and even if specialized to science and education could impact on education in a wide range of fields. However the curricula development should be focussed on those areas that are natural for the PACI i.e. computational science and Internetics. The curricula should span the full range of educational levels and should aim at spurring the integration of advanced computational techniques into the curricula of the core educational institutions. We suggest that collaboration among teachers/faculty of multiple institutions is this natural way to offer students these new learning choices. As this project will offer material not already available, it should be accepted without too many qualms by educational institutions. So we will integrate the curricula work with the first thrust by experiments involving collaboration between two or more institutions to deliver these courses. Initially we will produce CD-ROM's and web sites containing material but this multimedia asynchronous resource will be used in more interactive collaborative experiments using the packaged tools of the first thrust.

We suggest natural linkage with other parts of Alliance The PACS could well have best training material in areas such as MPI and HPF and we intend to work with Frank Gilfeather in this regard. The ET teams could produce specialized modules such as Dan Reed's and Dennis Gannon's contribution to the MRA training (Performance and HPC++) AT teams could produce application specific modules. Obviously there is natural linkage with undergraduate level -- for instance Boston's undergraduate introduction to Parallel Programming could be part of one package. We could use NPACI or other partners to help in assessment.
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