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Contributing Projects

The following are a list of projects often included in the content of the SC Education Program. This collection represents individual efforts as well as collaborations amongst different institutions.

The Bootable Cluster CD, or BCCD, is a CD image that boots up into a pre-configured distributed computing environment. It includes clustering paradigms (MPICH, LAM-MPI, PVM, and openMosix) as well as scientific computing software (mpiBLAST and Gromacs) and preconstructed examples.

CSERD, the Computational Science Education Reference Desk, "a Pathways project of the National Science Digital Library and funded by the National Science Foundation, aims to help students learn about computational science and to help teachers incorporate it into the classroom."

Debian Clusters for Education and Research documents how to manually install and configure the software for a fully functioning Debian cluster.

Interactivate is "a set of free, online courseware for exploration in science and mathematics. It is comprised of activities, lessons, and discussions."

A "cluster in a suitcase", LittleFe is "a complete multi-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."

The National Computational Science Institute "expands the already popular regional workshops known as the Shodor Computational Science Institute (SCSI). At over 18 partner sites across the country, NCSI introduces the hands-on use of computational science, numerical models, and data visualization tools across the curriculum."

The TeraGrid is "an open scientific discovery infrastructure combining leadership class resources at eight partner sites to create an integrated, persistent computational resource...bringing over 40 teraflops of computing power and nearly 2 petabytes of rotating storage, and specialized data analysis and visualization resources into production, interconnected at 10-30 gigabits/second via a dedicated national network."