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Legion: A K-12 HPC Outreach and Education Cluster

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PEARC '20: Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2020: Catch the Wave

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Outreach and education of High-Performance Computing (HPC) concepts pose the challenge of explaining and clarifying complex ideas and bringing them to a more digestible format. The current outreach done by the Holland Computing Center (HCC) of the University of Nebraska includes workshops, training, and tours with activities for groups ranging from K-12 students to researchers. The Legion Raspberry Pi cluster is a tool created to aid training and outreach HCC conducts with the Nebraska University and research community. The Legion cluster aids in demonstrating concepts such as what a computing cluster is and what its components are, the characteristics of different types of jobs ran on high-performance systems, and to expand outreach possibilities for HCC further. The cluster accomplishes the goal through scripted animations of lights on Raspberry Pis to demonstrate load, and through a series of LED bulbs ”connecting” the Pis in a representational network of a cluster environment. Using the cluster as an addition to existing outreach activities and events can then further aid the education of High-Performance Computing concepts.

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Coulter JWeiner MJezghani AGuidry MLara RLiu FMetts ARahaman RSuda KWan PWillcox GWomack DZhou D(2023)ICE 2.0: Restructuring and Growing an Instructional HPC ClusterProceedings of the SC '23 Workshops of The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Network, Storage, and Analysis10.1145/3624062.3624131(591-597)Online publication date: 12-Nov-2023
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Bohn C(2022)HPC Outreach and Education at NebraskaPractice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing 2022: Revolutionary: Computing, Connections, You10.1145/3491418.3535128(1-4)Online publication date: 8-Jul-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3491418.3535128

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