LittleFe is a portable mini-cluster which is small enough to fit in a shipping case, light enough to easily move between classrooms, and travels as standard checked baggage to conferences and workshops. LittleFe's primary focus is turnkey classroom demonstrations of, and exercises in, High Performance Computing (HPC), parallel programming, and Computational/Data Enabled Science and Engineering (CDESE). LittleFe supports shared memory, distributed memory, and GPGPU parallelism. LittleFe's secondary focus is as a production HPC resource for small institutions that are not yet able to afford or support a full scale cluster; in fact, LittleFe can be used as a gateway to, and development platform for full scale HPC resources.
LittleFe buildout events consist of participants assembling their LittleFe unit from a kit; installing the Bootable Cluster CD (BCCD) software on it; learning about the curriculum modules available for teaching parallel programming, HPC and CDESE; and learning how to develop new curriculum modules for the LittleFe/BCCD platform.
Institution
Salt Palace Convention Center
Dates
Nov 12 - Nov 12
Local Coordinators
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Lead Instructors
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Details
The 2012 LittleFe buildout will be held on Monday November, 12, 2012 as part of the SC12 SuperComputing conference's HPC Educators Program in Salt Lake City, UT. This will be an all day event.
The buildout will consist of participants assembling their LittleFe unit from a kit; installing the Bootable Cluster CD (BCCD) software on it; learning about the curriculum modules available for teaching parallel programming, HPC and CDESE; and learning how to develop new curriculum modules for the LittleFe/BCCD platform.
Applicants who cannot attend the SC12 buildout event will automatically void their team's (and their teammate's) application, unless a mutually agreed upon replacement is found in a timely manner.
