The Third NSF MRA Train-the-Trainer Workshop (CRPC, RTCPP)

Topic: Advanced Network-Based Education and Training
Focus: Education and Training in the areas of Parallel, High-performance, and Networked Computing and Scientific Problem Solving

San Diego Supercomputer Center
San Diego, CA, 26-27 June 1998

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The Summer 1998 NSF/MRA Train-the-Trainer Workshop is a joint effort between CRPC (Center for Research on Parallel Computation) and RTCPP (Regional Training Center for Parallel Processing) hosted by the San Diego Supercomputer Center. This is also a part of CRPC's project "Retooling the Supercomputing Community for Scalable Parallelism."

About the Workshop

Use of advanced computing, networking and scientific problem solving technologies, requires adequate education and training (ET) of a wide variety of potential users. This can only be achieved through appropriate ET paradigms and material, and a sufficiently wide base of well trained instructors in all professional areas which are likely to make use these technologies. One group of paradigms uses network-based solutions to support synchronous and asynchronous ET workflows, or network-based education and training (NBET). Appropriate of these technologies can be used to enhance rapid introduction of research results from fast moving fields into education, training, and engineering practice.

The objectives of this workshop are to

assess and discuss NBET support technologies and systems,
tutor the attendees in several NBET systems, and
in a followup effort, demonstrate practical use of these technologies and systems through a series of synchronous and asynchronous short courses.

Participating institutions will receive on-site help and training in installation of TANGO, Web Lecture System (WLS), and possibly one more NBET system developed commercially, or by the workshop organizers. AFTER that, a series of short courses will be presented over Internet and possibly vBNS, using the installed systems. The follow-up courses are planned as part of this Summer 98 (July/August timeframe) MRA "netcast" initative.

Introduction to Java (NPAC, Syracuse U.)
An Introduction to Networking (RTCPP, NC State U.)
Introduction to Parallel Programming (Boston U.)
Performance Tools, (UIUC)
Scientific Visualization
HPC++

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Program

Date/Time	Topic	Speaker
26-Jun-98
08:00 - 08:20	Registration
08:20 - 08:30	Welcome	Jack Donegan , San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC)
08:30 - 09:30	Introduction the purpose of the workshop workshop history collaboration with the PACI partnerships integratation of distance education into various aspects of PACI and other programs Overview of courses that will be "netcast" in the Summer 1998 (schedule, content, audience, sites, etc.)	Geoffrey Fox, CRPC and NPAC, Syracuse University Mladen Vouk, RTCPP, N.C. State University Jack Donegan, SDSC Gregory Moses, NPACI Roscoe Giles, NCSA Coordinators: Geoffry Fox (Syracuse U.), M. Vouk (N.C. State)
09:30 - 09:45	BREAK
09:45 - 10:45	An Introduction to TANGO	Geoffrey Fox, NPAC, Syracuse University
10:45 - 11:45	An Introduction to Web Lecture System (WLS)	Mladen Vouk and Richard Klevans, RTCPP, North Carolina State University
11:45 - 13:00	LUNCH
13:00 - 14:00	Virtual Workshops	Susan Mehringer, Cornell Theory Center
14:00 - 15:00	The Virtual Classroom/University and a Comparative Evaluation of the Network-Based Education and Training Paradigms	Barbara O'Keefe, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC)
15:00 - 15:15	BREAK
15:15 - 16:15	Panel on Issues in Asynchronous and Synchronous (Network-Based) Learning	Panel Members: Barbara O'Keefe (UIUC), Roscoe Giles (Boston U.), Susan Mehringer (Cornell, TC), Richard Carver (George Mason University), Charles R. Severance (Michigan State University), Rubin Landau (Oregon State University) Coordinators: Geoffrey Fox (Syracuse U.), M. Vouk (N.C. State)
16:15-17:00	General Discussion - review of the day's sessions and discussion of an "ideal system" Coordinators: Geoffry Fox (Syracuse U.), M. Vouk (N.C. State)
17:30-18:30	MRA Steering Committee Meeting the Doubletree Hotel
18:30-21:30	RECEPTION, POSTER and DEMO Session at the Doubletree Hotel Poster and Demo Setup: 17:30-18:30
27-Jun-98
08:15-10:00	WLS Training Session #1 - Operating WLS (as Instructor or Author) and Installing WLS (as System Administrator) RTCPP, NC State University
10:00 - 10:30	BREAK
10:30-12:15	TANGO Training Session #1 - Using TANGO (as an Enduser and/or a System Administrator) NPAC, Syracuse University
12:15-14:00	LUNCH BREAK and Discussion of Distance learning and Training Opportunities and Schedules.
14:00-15:30	TANGO Training Session #2 - Using TANGO (as an Enduser and/or a System Administrator) NPAC, Syracuse University
15:30-17:00	WLS Training Session #2 - Operating WLS (as Instructor or Author) and Installing WLS (as System Administrator) RTCPP, NC State University

Workshop Organization

How to get there
Accommodation
- Block of Rooms at Doubletree (Deadline is May 25, 1998)
- Other Hotels
Registration
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