An XSEDE strategic goal is to extend use of high-end digital services to new communities by preparing the current and next generation of scholars, researchers, and engineers in the use of advanced digital technologies via training, education, and outreach. The mission of XSEDE's Under-Represented Community Engagement (URCE) program is to ...

Progress in science and engineering is increasingly tied to the effective use of computational modeling on high-performance computing systems. Expertise in parallel computing techniques is therefore required, given the current architecture of those systems. Many campuses don't offer such a course because of course load limits, a lack of faculty ...

Extending expertise in parallel computing is critical to all those using high performance computing to gain insights into science and engineering problems. Many campuses do not offer such a course because of course load limits, a lack of faculty expertise, and/or lack of access to appropriate computing resources. MOOCs for ...

As parallel computing grows and becomes an essential part of computer science, tools must be developed to help grade assignments for large courses, especially with the prevalence of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) increasing in recent years. This paper describes some of the general challenges related to building an autograder ...

This paper describes the HPC University website and how it can be utilized to obtain information about computational science and high performance computing education and training resources, opportunities for student internships, shared educational materials, and news and information about HPC related events. The site provides access to a variety of ...

Learning the principles of computational modeling and parallel computing requires more than a short workshop. Workshops generally run from a few hours to a few days and are therefore limited in the amount of material that can be covered. In addition, it is more difficult for participants to retain large ...

We present the components of model undergraduate and graduate programs in computational science that have been developed as part of the XSEDE Education Program. The models serve as a template to assist institutions in creating formal programs in computational science that span multiple disciplines including the sciences and engineering, mathematics, ...

There's a great need for computational science programs that prepare the current and next generation of researchers, educators, and practitioners to effectively utilize digital services in support of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Xsede helps facilitate the founding and expansion of such programs.

One of the keys to the future competitiveness of U. S. industry is the integration of modeling and simulation into the development, design, and manufacturing process. A related challenge is to retrain the current workforce in the use of computational modeling to enable its effective use in the workplace. We ...

We propose a set of educational competencies for a graduate minor in computational science. Our goal is to reach a consensus on topics that students must understand to successfully use petascale computing.

Nine Ohio higher education institutions combined expertise to implement an interinstitutional, competency-based undergraduate minor curriculum in computational science. The program, which began in Autumn 2007, is part of an National Science Foundation Cyberinfrastructure Team Award and the new, statewide virtual Ralph Regula School of Computational Science. Key program elements include ...

We propose to address the issue of quality of digital library objects in the Computational Science Education Reference Desk by applying a verification, validation, and accreditation workflow to the review of learning objects.

The National Computational Science Alliance's Education and Outreach Team (EOT) is working with the Alliance's Environmental Hydrology Applications Technology Team (EH-AT) to make information technolgies for watershed monitoring, system modeling, simulation, and data visualization and analysis accessible to educational communities and the public at large. The broad vision here is ...