IX. HBCU/MI ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM

PET Team at Jackson State

The JSU support team for the CEWES MSRC consists of five members.  Dr Willie 
Brown is the overall project coordinator.  As such, Brown is responsible for 
overall management of PET activities at JSU, including core support and focused 
efforts.  Jeton McClinton serves as administrative assistant for the project.  
She is responsible for bookkeeping, travel arrangements, and clerical support of
all other JSU personnel.  Milti Leonard and Edgar Powell provide scientific 
visualization support for CEWES MSRC personnel and scientific visualization 
training for JSU students, faculty, and staff.  Milti and Edgar work closely 
with the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the 
University of Illinois.  Michael Robinson is the JSU Network Training Lead.  He 
is responsible for technical support of the JSU Distance Education effort.  This
includes hardware/software set-up and maintenance, as well as classroom 
teaching assistance.

Jackson State Year 3 Effort

JSU's role in CEWES MSRC PET is two-fold.  First, JSU is the lead Historically 
Black College/University (HBCU).  In this role, JSU's primary mission is to 
identify, and make available to the CEWES MSRC, high performance computing (HPC)
capabilities and expertise at targeted HBCUs and other Minority-Serving 
Institutions (MIs).  The co-mission is to identify, and make available to those 
targeted HBCU/MIs, opportunities for HPC training and capability 
development/enhancement.  The second JSU PET role is strictly technical.  Two 
focused efforts are in operation: distance education and scientific 
visualization.

HPC Summer Institute

In support of its HBCU/MI missions, JSU continued communication and 
collaboration with other PET HBCU/MIs (Central State University, Clark Atlanta 
University, Dillard University, and Morgan State University).  In addition, JSU 
hosted the second annual Introductory High Performance Computing Summer 
Institute, June 8 - 19, 1998.  At the institute, presenters from seven CEWES 
MSRC PET team universities introduced twenty students, from six HBCUs, to HPC in
general, and to the computational technology areas (CTAs) supported at the CEWES
MSRC.  PET universities represented were Illinois (NCSA), Mississippi State 
(ERC), Ohio State (OSC), Rice (CRPC), Syracuse (NPAC), Texas (TICAM), and JSU.
 Students came from Alcorn State, Dillard, Florida A&M, Mississippi Valley 
State, Tougaloo College, and JSU.

Distance Learning

During Year 3, JSU and Syracuse teamed up to present four distance education 
courses over the Web.  Syracuse delivered one undergraduate course (Web 
Programming) and two graduate courses (Computational Science for Simulation
Applications and Advanced Web Programming) to JSU, while JSU delivered one 
undergraduate course (Web Programming) to Morgan State University.  Syracuse 
also delivered the Advanced Web Programming course to Mississippi State and 
Clark Atlanta.  All offerings were full semester, for-credit courses delivered 
over the Web using the Tango collaborative software environment.  The 
JSU - Syracuse communications link was implemented on the Defense Research and 
Engineering Network (DREN).

PET Technical Support

JSU partnered with NCSA to provide scientific visualization training and support
to CEWES MSRC users.  Specifically, JSU's efforts focused on remote scientific 
visualization, i.e. enabling technologies that allow users in geographically 
distributed locations to access visualizations generated at remote sites.