• DocumentCode
    931989
  • Title

    Education: High-Performance Computing in Community Colleges?

  • Author

    Murphy, Tom

  • Author_Institution
    Contra Costa College
  • Volume
    7
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2006
  • fDate
    4/1/2006 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    3
  • Lastpage
    3
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Distributed Systems Online, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1541-4922
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MDSO.2006.26
  • Filename
    1631961