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Implementing micro High Performance Computing (µHPC) artifact : affordable HPC facilities for academia
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Moses Mwasaga, Nkundwe and Joy, Mike (2020) Implementing micro High Performance Computing (µHPC) artifact : affordable HPC facilities for academia. In: 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Uppsala, Sweden, 21-24 Oct 2020. Published in: Proceedings of Frontiers in Education 2020 (FIE2020) ISBN 9781728189611. doi:10.1109/FIE44824.2020.9273986 ISSN 2377-634X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/FIE44824.2020.9273986
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This Research to Practice Full Paper presents the experience of implementing micro HPC (μHPC) clusters in the education context. In developing countries, access to and experience of High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities (which are important for the economic development of those countries) has presented challenges to academic institutions due to prohibitive costs of acquisition and maintenance of HPC systems. These challenges affect the delivery of courses, which include HPC and parallel computation in their syllabi. However, due to advancements in integrated circuit technologies, credit-card-sized personal computers (PCs) have emerged with the capabilities of a fully-fledged PC. These credit-card-sized PCs offer an opportunity for system integrators to build micro HPC (μHPC) clusters which, apart from their efficiency, scalability and availability, have a number of attributes which are not shared with conventional data-center based HPC clusters These include their low power consumption, portability, diskless nodes, cost-effectiveness and excellent price to performance ratios. μHPC clusters are, therefore, ideally suited to support curricula in all educational disciplines that demand parallel computation. The purpose of this study is to investigate the implementation of μHPC to find out from students how ease of use of a μHPC system is to acquire skills and knowledge of HPC. We used focus groups and surveys to gather data in the framework of the design science research paradigm. The implementation of μHPC clusters involved a demonstration of the system in the problem context that provided valuable lessons. The results indicate that μHPC is the ease of use HPC artifact for learning about management, integration, deployment, installation, downloading, and running of parallel programs.
Item Type: | Conference Item (Paper) | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Proceedings of Frontiers in Education 2020 (FIE2020) | ||||||||
Publisher: | IEEE | ||||||||
ISBN: | 9781728189611 | ||||||||
ISSN: | 2377-634X | ||||||||
Book Title: | 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) | ||||||||
Official Date: | 2020 | ||||||||
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DOI: | 10.1109/FIE44824.2020.9273986 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Conference Paper Type: | Paper | ||||||||
Title of Event: | 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE) | ||||||||
Type of Event: | Conference | ||||||||
Location of Event: | Uppsala, Sweden | ||||||||
Date(s) of Event: | 21-24 Oct 2020 |
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