Interdisciplinary teamwork in HPC education: Challenges, concepts, and outcomes

Brennan-Tonetta

et al. 2022

JBDAI

There has been an increasing interest in and growing need for high performance computing (HPC), popularly known as supercomputing, in domains such as textual analytics, business domains analytics, forecasting and natural language processing (NLP), in addition to the relatively mature supercomputing domains of quantum physics and biology. HPC has been widely used in computer science (CS) and other traditionally computation intensive disciplines, but has remained largely siloed away from the vast array of social, behavioral, business and economics disciplines. However, with ubiquitous big data, there is a compelling need to make HPC technologically and economically accessible, easy to use, and operationally democratized. Therefore, this research focuses on making two key contributions, the first is the articulation of strategies based on availability, accessibility and usability for the demystification and democratization of HPC, based on an analytical review of Caliburn, a notable supercomputer at its inception. The second contribution is a set of principles for HPC adoption based on an experiential narrative of HPC usage for textual analytics and NLP of social media data from a first-time user perspective. Both, the HPC usage process and the output of the early stage analytics are summarized. This research study synthesizes expert input on HPC democratization strategies, and chronicles the challenges and opportunities from a multidisciplinary perspective, of a case of rapid adoption of supercomputing for textual analytics and NLP. Deductive logic is used to identify strategies which can lead to efficacious engagement, adoption, production and sustained usage for research, teaching, application and innovation by researchers, faculty, professionals and students across a broad range of disciplines.

Section: Hpc Education and Productivity Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategies for Democratization of Supercomputing: Availability, Accessibility and Usability of High Performance Computing for Education and Practice of Big Data Analytics

Brennan-Tonetta

et al. 2022

JBDAI

“…Extant research has shown that interdisciplinary faculty are essential for successful implementation of HPC instruction (Neumann et al, 2017). Globally, emphasis on hands-on experiences and communications with international faculty is gaining significant prominence in HPC education (Sancho, 2016).…”

Section: Hpc Education and Productivity Principlesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Strategies for Democratization of Supercomputing: Availability, Accessibility and Usability of High Performance Computing for Education and Practice of Big Data Analytics

Brennan-Tonetta²,

et al. 2021

SSRN Journal

There has been an increasing interest in and growing need for high performance computing (HPC), popularly known as supercomputing, in domains such as textual analytics, business domains analytics, forecasting and natural language processing (NLP), in addition to the relatively mature supercomputing domains of quantum physics and biology. HPC has been widely used in computer science (CS) and other traditionally computation intensive disciplines, but has remained largely siloed away from the vast array of social, behavioral, business and economics disciplines. However, with ubiquitous big data, there is a compelling need to make HPC technologically and economically accessible, easy to use, and operationally democratized.Therefore, this research focuses on making two key contributions, the first is the articulation of strategies based on availability, accessibility and usability for the demystification and democratization of HPC, based on an analytical review of Caliburn, a notable supercomputer at its inception. The second contribution is a set of principles for HPC adoption based on an experiential narrative of HPC usage for textual analytics and NLP of social media data from a first time user perspective. Both, the HPC usage process and the output of the early stage analytics are summarized. This research study synthesizes expert input on HPC democratization strategies, and chronicles the challenges and opportunities from a multidisciplinary perspective, of a case of rapid adoption of supercomputing for textual analytics and NLP. Deductive logic is used to identify strategies which can lead to efficacious engagement, adoption, production and sustained usage for research, teaching, application and innovation by researchers, faculty, professionals and students across a broad range of disciplines.

“…Exemplificando, as avaliações de big data são realizadas no âmbito de plataformas de mídia como o facebook, em que a robótica combina engenharia e informática para melhorar os processos de desenvolvimento industrial. Simulações numéricas (multiescala) são amplamente utilizadas para prever o comportamento do material e assim por diante (NEUMANN et al, 2017).…”

Section: Interdisciplinaridade E Suas Dimensõesunclassified

Desafios da Interdisciplinaridade no Ensino Superior: o Papel do Coordenador de Curso nos “Projetos e Atividades Especiais – PAES”

Penof

Leonardo

Farina

2020

RAEP

Trata-se de estudo exploratório descritivo realizado em uma Instituição de Educação Superior (IES) brasileira com a participação dos coordenadores por sua importância nas ações conjuntas entre cursos. Foram analisados os relacionamentos entre coordenadores e o quanto estes conhecem e promovem ações interdisciplinares tendo por base os Projetos e Atividades Especiais (PAEs) desenvolvidos na instituição. Também foram avaliadas, pelos pesquisados, dimensões consideradas essenciais para o sucesso dos trabalhos de grupos interdisciplinares. Os dados do questionário respondido pelos coordenadores foram interpretados por meio da Análise de Redes Sociais (ARS) com uso do software UciNet V6. Concluiu-se que ações interdisciplinares são incipientes entre os coordenadores. A dimensão “Comunicação eficaz” recebeu a melhor pontuação entre os respondentes para a consolidação da interdisciplinaridade entre os cursos. Já a dimensão “Características individuais” teve a menor pontuação. Notam-se ações individuais para promover e divulgar atividades interdisciplinares e que a interdisciplinaridade está na pauta da IES pesquisada, mas não se evidencia ação institucional para fortalecimento dos relacionamentos entre coordenadores. Características do coordenador e ou do curso fazem com que determinados cursos se mostrem como “ilhas de conhecimento”.