I will be helping teach the weekend event at UChicago.
On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 9:37 AM, Barry Smith <bsmith at mcs.anl.gov> wrote: > > > Begin forwarded message: > > *From: *Sri Hari Krishna Narayanan <snarayan at mcs.anl.gov> > *Subject: **[Seniors] Talk on Peer Education For Scientific Computing* > *Date: *December 13, 2012 11:29:07 AM CST > *To: *fellows at ci.uchicago.edu, seniors at ci.uchicago.edu > *Cc: *Katy Huff <katyhuff at gmail.com>, Prasanna Balaprakash < > pbalapra at mcs.anl.gov> > > At the AHM on Nov 26th, there was a discussion about educating students in > the basics of HPC. I remember having brought up > http://software-carpentry.org/ and there being some curiosity about it. > I have invited Katy Huff, a member of Software Carpentry, to talk about > it (details below). > > Also. of interest to folks in Chicago may be a 'boot camp' that she is > involved in: > > http://software-carpentry.org/boot-camps/university-of-chicago-january-2013/ > > Thanks, > Krishna > > Who: Katy Huff (http://homepages.cae.wisc.edu/~khuff/work.html) > What: Peer Education For Scientific Computing > Where: Building 240, 1404-1405, ANL > When: Dec 19, 3:00 PM - 4:00 PM > > Abstract : > Detailed computational models, massively parallelized calculations, and > enormously collaborative simulation projects are increasingly integral to > the advancement of science. However, the quality and caliber of this work > is limited by a workforce lacking formal training in a software development > skill suite that is becoming increasingly essential. To address this unmet > need, a number of organizations, including Software Carpentry, have > developed online resources and short courses addressing software > development best practices such as version control and test driven > code development, as well as basic skills such as UNIX mobility [1, 2]. In > addition to contributions such as a "Driver's License for High Performance > Computing"[3], Software Carpentry conducts ?Boot Camps? at research > institutions around the world. These boot camps seek to provide time > ef?cient introductions to essential programming languages and tools > without turning ?biochemists and mechanical engineers into > computer scientists? [4]. > > [1] K. Hu?, A. Scopatz, N. Preston, P.P.H. Wilson. ?Rapid Peer Education > of a Computational Nuclear Engineering Skill Suite.? Transactions of the > American Nuclear Society Annual Conference. Hollywood, FL. June 2011. > [2] G.V. Wilson, D.A. Aruliah, C.T. Brown, N.P. Chue Hong, M. Davis, R.T. > Guy, S.H.D. Haddock, K.D. Hu?, I. Mitchell, M. Plumbley, B. Waugh, E.P. > White, and P.P.H. Wilson. ?Best Practices For Scienti?c Computing.? > arXiv:1210.0530 [cs.MS]. > [3] Gregory V. Wilson. "Alpha Test of Driver?s License Exam." Software > Carpentry Blog. August 16, 2012, > http://software-carpentry.org/2012/08/alpha-test-of-drivers-license-exam/. > [4] Gregory V. Wilson. "Software Carpentry: Essential Software Skills for > Research Scientists," September 6, 2006, http://nanohub.org/resources/1811 > . > > _______________________________________________ > Seniors mailing list > Seniors at ci.uchicago.edu > https://lists.ci.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/seniors > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20121213/17e6c092/attachment-0001.html>
