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A multi-cultural success story for achieving diversity in multi-core/many-core internships

Published: 18 July 2011 Publication History

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One of the foremost challenges in high performance computing (HPC) is promoting involvement of historically underrepresented undergraduate students. The Blue Waters Undergraduate Petascale Education Program, funded by the National Science Foundation Office of CyberInfrastructure, has been facing this challenge head-on while supporting undergraduate internship experiences that involve the application of HPC to problems in the sciences, engineering, or mathematics. This paper describes an evolving approach to the recruitment efforts for undergraduate interns and mentors that demonstrates the importance of formative assessment supporting proactive program changes leading to success in generating a large, diverse applicant pool including substantial numbers of qualified women and minority candidates.

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  • (2014)iCER InternsProceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment10.1145/2616498.2616573(1-5)Online publication date: 13-Jul-2014
  • (2014)The blue waters student internship programProceedings of the Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing10.1109/EduHPC.2014.6(49-55)Online publication date: 16-Nov-2014

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TG '11: Proceedings of the 2011 TeraGrid Conference: Extreme Digital Discovery
July 2011
256 pages
ISBN:9781450308885
DOI:10.1145/2016741

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Published: 18 July 2011

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  1. computational science
  2. education
  3. high performance computing
  4. historically underrepresented groups
  5. research
  6. undergraduate faculty
  7. undergraduate internships
  8. undergraduate students
  9. women and minorities

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TG'11: TeraGrid 2011
July 18 - 21, 2011
Utah, Salt Lake City

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  • (2014)iCER InternsProceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment10.1145/2616498.2616573(1-5)Online publication date: 13-Jul-2014
  • (2014)The blue waters student internship programProceedings of the Workshop on Education for High-Performance Computing10.1109/EduHPC.2014.6(49-55)Online publication date: 16-Nov-2014

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