Title :
Education: High-Performance Computing in Community Colleges?
Author_Institution :
Contra Costa College
fDate :
4/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Contra Costa College´s HPC program is vocational, preparing students to be Linux cluster administrators. It began with a US National Science Foundation-sponsored consortium of four community colleges tasked with developing an HPC technician curriculum reflective of the local community. The four colleges would then combine these programs to form a national curriculum
Keywords :
Linux; computer science education; vocational training; Contra Costa College; HPC technician curriculum; Linux cluster administrator; US National Science Foundation-sponsored consortium; community colleges; education; high-performance computing; national curriculum; vocational program; Animation; Bioinformatics; Curriculum development; Educational institutions; Genomics; Laboratories; Linear accelerators; Linux; NASA; Recruitment; HPC; Linux; community college; education; high-performance computing;
Journal_Title :
Distributed Systems Online, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MDSO.2006.26
