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TRECC RESOURCES HELP HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS DEVELOP COMPUTING APPLICATIONS Four D.C.-area high school students remotely used the Technology Research, Education, and Commercialization Center.s (TRECC) 26-processor computing cluster to gain hands-on training and experience with high-performance computing through a unique summer program offered by the Joint Educational Facilities (JEF) and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). Through a range of K-12 activities, JEF aims to increase the quantity and quality of underrepresented minorities successfully entering science and engineering baccalaureate programs. The partnership with NCSA's Minority Serving Institutions program is intended to advance and broaden the skills of high school students who have previously participated in JEF's advanced computer science training. The students' training began at a five-day workshop, June 14-18, at NCSA's ACCESS Center, 901 North Stuart Street, Suite 800, Arlington, Virginia. The students' training took place during a week-long workshop at NCSA's ACCESS Center, located in Arlington, Virginia. Students were guided by instructors from JEF, NCSA, TRECC, UIUC, and a variety of other participating colleges, both on-site at Access and off-site via the Access Grid. The workshop covered the use of cyberinfrastructure tools such as cluster computing, the Access Grid, and visualization applications. Using these foundational skills, the students are spending the rest of the summer developing their applications and using clusters for their individual areas of research, which include cluster security, video editing, animation, and networking. Return to July 2004 Newslink Table of Contents
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