Although most community colleges don't have high-performance computing programs, a consortium of four community colleges developed an HPC curriculum with help from the US National Science Foundation. Contra Costa College's HPC program is vocational, training students to be Linux cluster administrators. Courses also prepare students for various Computing Technology Industry Association exams.
Index Terms:
high-performance computing, HPC, Linux, community college, education
Citation:
Tom Murphy, "Education: High-Performance Computing in Community Colleges?," IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 3, Apr. 2006, doi:10.1109/MDSO.2006.26