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COE-HPC Offers Special Topic Course on Data Science for Undergraduate Students

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With the support from the Texas A&M Institute of Data Science, the Texas Engineering Experiment Station, the Texas A&M High Performance Research Computing, and the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Dr. Jian Tao at COE-HPC will teach a special topic course – ECEN 489 section 504 (CRN 40958) to undergraduate students on various subjects in Data Science in Fall 2019.

The course introduces students to the computational practice of Data Science through a sequence of interactive modules that provide an integrated hands-on approach to its methods, tools, and applications, and supporting technologies including high performance and cloud computing platforms. These modules prepare students for a concurrent semester-long project involving real-world applications of Data Science. The course is aimed both at students who wish to acquire knowledge of Data Science by developing fluency in its applications, and also students with previous exposure to Data Science foundations who wish to develop complementary skills in the use of state of the art systems and tools.

More about the course can be found here.

Texas A&M Team Selected for Student Cluster Competition at 2018 Supercomputing Conference

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As the only team from Texas, the Texas A&M Student Cluster Competition Team with 6 engineering undergraduates is selected, together with 14 other teams worldwide, to participate the Student Cluster Competition at 2018 Supercomputing Conference at Dallas this November.

The A&M Team will be sponsored by Dell, NVIDIA, Mellanox, and Intel together with support from TEES and HPRC.

The Student Cluster Competition is an HPC multi-disciplinary experience integrated within the HPC community’s biggest gathering, the Supercomputing Conference. The competition is a microcosm of a modern HPC center that teaches and inspires students to pursue careers in the field. It demonstrates the breadth of skills, technologies and science that it takes to build, maintain and utilize supercomputers. In this real-time, non-stop, 48-hour challenge, teams of undergraduate and/or high school students assemble small clusters on the exhibit floor, and race to complete real-world workloads across a series of applications and impress HPC-industry judges

More information about the Student Cluster Competition at 2018 Supercomputing Conference at Dallas can be found at
http://www.studentclustercompetition.us/index.html

Inaugural Texas A&M supercomputing team heading to competition in China

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How do you compete in supercomputing? The students on the Texas A&M University Supercomputing Team know that’s going to be the first question before it’s even asked.

“Build. Run. Optimize,” said Dr. Jian Tao, advisor for the team and Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station researcher. “You build the computer, you run programs on it and then you optimize the performance.”

They’re simple words, but the competition is anything but. Over 300 student teams from around the world entered the Asia Supercomputer Community’s Student Supercomputer Challenge (ASC18), but only 20 made the cut to the finals to be held in May in China. Texas A&M’s group is not only the lone team from the United States to make the finals, it’s the only team from the entire Western Hemisphere.

More about the story can be found at TEES News

COE-HPC Kickstarts An Undergraduate Research Course on High Performance Computing

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Starting from 2018, COE-HPC is leading an AggiE_Challenge project aiming to encourage undergraduate students to learn and participate research activities on high performance computing. Our project is open to students from freshman to senior level. Undergraduate students who are interested to participate can enroll in an ENGR – 491 section and receive course credit (1-4 credit hours). More about the course can be found at https://coehpc.engr.tamu.edu/aggie_challenge.