+1 Informative
This sounds like a really cool program and perhaps, as Phil mentioned, a wise career investment. I would hope there was a focus on real "hands-on" learning and testing, lest it become another pseudo-cert-like piece of paper that only impresses the most out of touch PHBs.
The curriculum looks interesting, at the very least.
http://www.waketech.edu/curred/cis/hpcday.html
Thanks for the info! dave m.
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003, at 08:58 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some of you may already be familiar with this, but some of you who aren't might find this interesting...
Wake Tech has a new program, started about a year ago I think, called "High Performance Computing." Essentially it's an entire degree program (results in an A.S. degree) based around Beowulf clusters / Grid Computing / Linux / Parallel programming,etc.
There's a heavy focus on Linux in the curriculum, as Linux is the most
widely used OS for Beowulf clusters (although not the only one.. incredibly
some people are building Beowulf's using Windoze).
Now, why would I think this would be of interest to the TriLUG list? Well,
first because it's dealing with geeky cool high-end computing stuff, and it
involves Linux.. .but maybe more importantly, is because of future career
considerations. We all know the tech economy is in the dump, especially
around here. And we're all hearing horror stories about the constant
exporting of high paying tech jobs overseas...
However, there are some government projections that there will be a huge short-fall of workers trained in dealing with HPC, developing over the next few years. The NSF is predicting a need for something like 164000+ HPC workers by 2008.
"Based on survey findings and employment projections, the number of HPC positions for which associate degree holders will be eligible will be 164,397--at minimum--by 2008." - From www.highperformancecomputing.org
This also seems particularly relevant in the Triangle region, as this area
appears to be developing more and more of a bio-tech bias, as opposed
to software and telecom. And guess what kinds of companies use lots of
HPC clusters? Right.. bio-techs... for stuff like genome mapping, DNA
sequencing,
etc.
So anyway, for anybody who is maybe looking to learn some neat
skills, and possibly help "future proof" yourself a little bit, in terms
of employability, I recommend checking out the Wake Tech
HPC program...
their website is http://www.waketech.edu/curred/cis/hpchome.html
and the NSF homepage dedicated to the nationwide HPC
initiative is at www.highperformancecomputing.org
TTYL,
Phil
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