Through teaming activities, the students learn to investigate problems in their respective fields of study and to gain a greater appreciation of the knowledge that is required from many other disciplines to effectively solve problems of national importance. The faculty-sponsored research begins in the summer and is continued during the academic year. In addition to the students who have benefited from the education related HPC activities, there are those who have gained practical hands-on experience in HPC technologies. These students have served as interns in the Information Systems and Academic Computing Center on campus. They design and install local area networks, enable parallel computing by connecting workstations into clusters or network of workstations, and are trained in the administration of supercomputers and workstations.
Courses provide textbook problems that are very simplistic and show only one element of the problem.
These are some of the tools that I will use in my future career. This experience will be invaluable in the remainder of my studies as an undergraduate and as I pursue advanced degrees in engineering. It will strengthen my competitive edge as I enter a professional career. The experience has reinforced classes that I have taken in computer science, in particular networking. Every student in computer science should have this or a similar experience before graduation.