Category: Tools

The Tools category contains blog articles covering a variety of tools that may be useful in our teaching, training and outreach activities. This includes tools specific to HPC, as well as, more general tools useful in content creation, learners engagement etc.

HPC Certification Program – the HPC environment survey

Jean-Thomas Acquaviva, DDN Storage

Supercomputers are helping us to solve the world greatest challenges but who is helping us to harness the computational power of supercomputers?

The HPC Certification Forum is a community effort that aims to provide an international certification program for the skills needed by practitioners  to harness supercomputers. The HPC Certification Forum aims to clearly categorise, define, and examine competencies, which will be beneficial to all stake-holders involved in training and education.  To make this effort relevant to the whole HPC community,  a number of on-line surveys and polls will be created in order to capture and estimate the importance of various tools, technologies and skills that are expected from HPC practitioners. 

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Unity 4: Game Of Life in 3D

David Joiner, Kean University

Conway’s Game of Life is a classic problem for computer science students, and provides an early example of cellular automata as well as an opportunity to practice nested loops and multi-dimensional arrays. Continue reading “Unity 4: Game Of Life in 3D”

Unity 3: Lorenz Butterfly

David Joiner, Kean University

The Lorenz system is a widely studied example of a chaotic system. It’s classically simple, needing only three coupled equations to exhibit a variety of types of traditionally chaotic behavior. First described by Lorenz in 1963, the system was initially designed as a simplified model of convection in the atmosphere. Continue reading “Unity 3: Lorenz Butterfly”

Unity 1: Hello

David Joiner, Kean University

Welcome to the first in a series of blog posts about my experiences using Unity as a modeling and visualization tool. The series will walk users through creating scientifically appropriate models, simulations, and visualizations in Unity Game Engine, driven by my experiences using modeling in Unity for outreach and recruiting activities with high school students and undergrads. Continue reading “Unity 1: Hello”