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Project TitleCurriculum Developer
SummaryThis intern will work under the guidance of the mentor to take a working curriculum module (How Many People Does it Take to...: A Parallel Approach to the Party Problem) and update it to make it more useful to the Blue Waters hardware. While the original module was set to be applicable to Blue Waters and other hardware, it was developed before Blue Waters was accessible. Therefore, the module should be updated to compile and run on Blue Waters and the activities should be updated so that there is performance information relevant to Blue Waters.
Job DescriptionThe intern will update the working curriculum module (How Many People Does it Take to...: A Parallel Approach to the Party Problem) and update it to make it more useful to the Blue Waters hardware. This will involve learning how to run the module on Blue Waters, doing performance testing on Blue Waters, and rewriting the directions for faculty and student use to incorporate the new information that is specific to Blue Waters. If time permits, the intern will port additional modules that have been validated to the Blue Waters system and conduct performance testing, and revise the documentation.
Conditions/QualificationsMust be a University of Mary Washington student with C++ programming experience.
Start Date05/01/2014
End Date05/31/2015
LocationUniversity of Mary Washington
Fredericksburg, VA 22401
Department of Computer Science
Interns
Ruth Catlett