The Virtual School will increase and enhance the high-performance computing curricula available to graduate students at the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) universities by leveraging CIC faculty expertise, enabling wider impact of local curricular efforts and becoming an expert source of curricula for petascale and high-performance computing through development and dissemination,. The initial focus on the CIC provides an important test-bed for scaling to a larger national effort.
The Virtual School is leveraging infrastructure that is already in place within the GLCPC. The CIC has an established mechanism for the development, sharing and crediting of courses; a high-speed network (10 Gbytes/sec); and widespread use of Access Grid technologies.
Additional cyberinfrastructure (CI) will be developed and/or adopted to expand the breadth and impact of the Virtual School. Included will be fully integrated CI to support distance instruction, including wikis and high-definition video, virtual communities, code repository, online training, resource access, etc.
For more information on the Virtual School, contact Sharon Glotzer.
The Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation (GLCPC) facilitates the widespread and effective use of petascale computing to address frontier research questions in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics at research, educational, and industrial organizations across the United States. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications, on behalf of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the lead institution for organizing and managing the GLCPC. © 2009 Board of Trustees University of Illinois.