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PURDUE UNIVERISTY MENTORING UNDERGRADUATES THROUGH COMPETITION v Stephen Lien Harrell - Purdue University STUDENT CLUSTER COMPETITION PARTICIPATION Purdue has taken a team to 10 events in the past 9 years. SCC at SC 07, 08, 09, 10, 11,

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PURDUE UNIVERISTY

MENTORING UNDERGRADUATES THROUGH COMPETITION

v Stephen Lien Harrell - Purdue University

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STUDENT CLUSTER COMPETITION PARTICIPATION

  • Purdue has taken a team to 10

events in the past 9 years.

  • SCC at SC 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 14
  • SCC at ISC 13, 15
  • ASC 14
  • SC14 and ISC15 teams were blended teams with Universidad EAFIT
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STUDENTS

  • 37 Students have participated from

Purdue

  • 8 students working in HPC centers at

national labs and universities.

  • Many studentshave participated multiple

years

  • Two teams were dual-institution teams with Universidad EAFIT from

Colombia

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INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT

  • Our teams are run and supported out
  • f the Research Computing department
  • f central IT at Purdue (ITaP)
  • Hardware and funding typically

provided by our departments HPC Vendor partners

  • Currently HP (thank you!)
  • We are also supported academically out of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary

Sciences by Professor Baldiwn who is a fairly heavy user of our compute resources in Research Computing

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INSTITUTIONAL RETURN ON INVESTMENT

  • Hiring for HPC staff positions can be difficult in the middle
  • f Indiana.
  • 21 Students over the last 9 years have worked as

Student System Administrators in Purdue’s Research Computing Department.

  • 5 team alumni have come to work Purdue’s Research Computing Department

as full time staff.

  • Spread HPC knowledge across Purdue
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IMPACT TO CURRICULUM

  • Created new elements of curriculum for

the Student Cluster Competition preparation that turned into other courses

  • Created a “box of parts” to

“WRF simulation” class

  • Atmospheric Science professor used

modules to integrate running WRF into some of the core curriculum for Atmospheric Science.

  • Used modules and some general ideas to create specific research classes.
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COMPETITION ASSESSMENT

WHAT WE LIKE

  • Experiential learning
  • Multi-disciplinary
  • The HPC Community around the

competition

  • Students solving problems and learning
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COMPETITION ASSESSMENT

WHAT CAN BE IMPROVED

  • Better feedback on applications

and judging

  • More conference engagement and

networking!

  • More academic style activities
  • Posters
  • Presentations in a public forum
  • Papers