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Evaluating the Wide Area Classroom After 24,000 HPC Students

Physics Education 2024-02-07 v1 Computers and Society
Authors: John Urbanic , Thomas Maiden , Valerie Rossi
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Abstract

As of 2023 we have taught more than 24,000 students over the course of 106 events using the Wide Area Classroom, a novel distributed teaching platform. This has been a successful effort gauged by several important metrics. We describe both the technical and logistical structure of these events as well as the specific HPC curriculums which have proven to be most popular.

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@article{arxiv.2402.03343,
  title  = {Evaluating the Wide Area Classroom After 24,000 HPC Students},
  author = {John Urbanic and Thomas Maiden and Valerie Rossi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.03343},
  year   = {2024}
}

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HPC, training, education, supercomputing, parallel computing, MPI, OpenMP, OpenACC, Big Data, Machine Learning

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