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Parallel Computing—The
Supercomputer
In January, LSU hosted the first computational science workshop for students
and faculty members from underrepresented groups. Twelve undergraduates
and seven faculty members representing schools from Louisiana, Texas,
Mississippi, Georgia, and Virginia met on the LSU campus for one week
to discuss parallel computing and to build a parallel machine. To avoid
the high cost of financing a commercial supercomputer, participants of
the workshop built an eight-node PC cluster, a collection of personal
computers connected through a network. The cluster provides high-performance
computing that has become an integral part of research in the physical
and biological sciences and in engineering. With the talents of students,
faculty members, and researchers from LSU and other participating colleges
and universities, the parallel computing machine proved to be a huge success
and plans for the second annual workshop are already being discussed.
Workshop Support:
- National Science Foundation Focused Research Group award (DMR-0085344)
to the Concurrent Computing Laboratory for Materials Simulations (CCLMS)
- Louisiana Health Excellence Fund to the Biological Computation
& Visualization Center (BCVC)
- Biological Resource Infrastructure Network (BRIN) grant from the National
Institutes of Health (NIH)
- LSU Center
for Applied Information Technology & Learning (LSU CAPITAL),
established in conjunction with Louisiana Governor Mike Foster's statewide
information technology initiative
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute Grant to LSU to enhance undergraduate
biomedical education
Last updated April 2002
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