Parallel Supercomputer Simulations for Education
`Integration of Information Age Networking and Parallel
Supercomputer Simulations into University General Science and K-12
Curricula'.
Project summary
This project will create a Metacenter Regional Alliance between the
Cornell Theory Center,
the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
(NPAC), and the
Department of Physics at Syracuse
University, to develop interactive multimedia educational
modules incorporating advanced scientific simulations. These will
be integrated into undergraduate courses, and then into K-12
curricula, to enhance the teaching of general science courses.
We will combine leading-edge technologies in high-performance
computing and communications (HPCC), a high-speed network serving as
a testbed for the National Information Infrastructure (NII), and
advanced client/server technologies such as the World Wide Web (WWW),
VRML and Java, to produce and deliver these simulations and educational
modules.
Background and existing work
Science for the 21st
Century is an innovative integrated science course in the Physics
Department at Syracuse University.
The Living Textbook Project
is a multidisciplinary project designed to demonstrate the use of
leading-edge HPCC technologies in the K-12 classroom. Led by
NPAC and the School of Education
at Syracuse University, the project combines teacher teams, software
developers, education researchers, computational scientists, HPCC vendors,
and information content providers to deliver digital video, images, and text
to the classroom, and to prototype interactive, information-on-demand
systems and their integration into K-12 curricula.
Since 1991, NPAC has hosted a very successful Research Experiences for
Undergraduates
(REU site program in HPCC and
computational science. In the summer of 1994 NPAC taught a computer
multimedia course based on the Web to 40 8th grade students
as part of the
Young Scholars Program
at Syracuse University.
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