Parallel Computing Interns/Mentoring

Ana Gonzalez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez

Usage Details

Blue Waters Trainee 205, Blue Waters Trainee 206, Blue Waters Instructor 018, Jorge Valles, Hector Hernandez, Ana Gonzalez

This educational event will expose the students to the complete research process, with the benefit of incorporating Blue Waters resources and developing skills in computational thinking, computer programming, high-performance computing and algorithm development. At the local institution, there are no HPC resources available, so without Blue Waters this event could not be possible.

The students together with the mentor will study problems/applications: for example, the winner determination problem and combinatorial auctions, the maximum clique problem and social networks analysis. Serial and parallel algorithms for these problems will be designed and implemented using C, MPI, OpenMP, CUDA, performance tests will be conducted and results analyzed. The project will be documented in an appropriate format: technical papers, posters, oral presentations or combinations.

The experience from this event will be used to develop educational modules that will allow incorporating a parallel computing culture throughout the Computer Science and Mathematics curriculum at UPR-Mayaguez.