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]]> By: John Leidel http://insidehpc.com/2009/12/03/waco-high-school-students-awarded-small-super/comment-page-1/#comment-197056 John Leidel Fri, 04 Dec 2009 05:10:35 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=9097#comment-197056 Jeff, I agree completely! We, as industry folk, need to do a better job in getting the young minds of tomorrow excited about science and its respective applications. On your note about LSU, they do still have the summer program going. Check it out: http://insidehpc.com/2009/06/10/lsu-hosts-beowulf-boot-camp/ Jeff, I agree completely! We, as industry folk, need to do a better job in getting the young minds of tomorrow excited about science and its respective applications. On your note about LSU, they do still have the summer program going. Check it out:
http://insidehpc.com/2009/06/10/lsu-hosts-beowulf-boot-camp/

]]> By: Jeff Layton http://insidehpc.com/2009/12/03/waco-high-school-students-awarded-small-super/comment-page-1/#comment-197009 Jeff Layton Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:49:38 +0000 http://insidehpc.com/?p=9097#comment-197009 I think this is great! Love to see High School kids getting involved and having fun. I talked to some of the teams for the Cluster Challenge at SC09 - great groups of people. They are smart, savy, and driven - all the things we need in the HPC community. BTW - a somewhat related topic... LSU ran a program for at risk high school kids in the summer. They would bring in the kids who would assemble the nodes, assemble the cluster, install the software, and then build and run applications on it (maybe even a little programming). The assembled cluster would go to a high school of one of the kids who participated. I think this is an uber-cool idea that every university should be doing. LSU may still be doing this (it's been a few years since I was there so I don't know the status). Jeff I think this is great! Love to see High School kids getting involved and having fun.

I talked to some of the teams for the Cluster Challenge at SC09 – great groups of people. They are smart, savy, and driven – all the things we need in the HPC community.

BTW – a somewhat related topic… LSU ran a program for at risk high school kids in the summer. They would bring in the kids who would assemble the nodes, assemble the cluster, install the software, and then build and run applications on it (maybe even a little programming). The assembled cluster would go to a high school of one of the kids who participated. I think this is an uber-cool idea that every university should be doing. LSU may still be doing this (it’s been a few years since I was there so I don’t know the status).

Jeff

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