One of the first SC Education production units in the lab at Earlham College. October, 2006.
One of the first SC Education production units in the lab at Earlham College. October, 2006.
Many institutions and teaching environments do not have access to parallel platforms for parallel and distributed computing education. Teaching key concepts such as speedup, efficiency, and load balancing are much more effectively done on a parallel platform. LittleFe is a complete 6 node Beowulf style portable computational cluster. LittleFe weighs less than 50 pounds, easily and safely travels via checked baggage on the airlines, and sets-up in 10 minutes wherever there is a 110V outlet and a wall to project an image on. By leveraging the Bootable Cluster CD project, and its associated curriculum modules, LittleFe makes it possible to have a powerful ready-to-run computational science and HPC educational platform for about $3,000.
SIAM's Computational Science and Engineering - San Francisco, February, 2006.
ACM's Principles and Practices of Parallel Programming - New York, March, 2006.
Kean University - New Jersey, March, 2006.
National Science Foundation's headquarters tour - Arlington, VA, March, 2006.
National Computational Science Institute's Parallel and Distributed Computing workshop - Houston, TX, May, 2006.
TeraGrid '06 - Indianapolis, IN, June, 2006.
National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education's Introduction to Parallel and Cluster Computing workshop - Georgetown, TX, June, 2006.
SuperComputing education program development workshop. July, 2006.
EuroPar 2006 - Dresden, Germany, September, 2006.
National Science Foundation's headquarters tour - Arlington, VA, October, 2006.
Montgomery Blair High School presentation - Montgomery, MD, October, 2006.
Joint Educational Facilities presentation - Washington, D.C., October, 2006.
SC06 - Tampa, FL, November, 2006.
