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Happy summer folks!
My Raspberry Pi 4 CanaKits that were backorded months ago finally arrived, and I’ve been using those to build some remaining clusters for my students. Thanks to the chip shortage, my only option to get Pis were to buy the more expensive Raspberry Pi 4 starter kits, which are significantly more expensive than just a board and a power cable, and came with a lot of things I didn’t need or want.
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Wow, the world is different. I was supposed to attend the 10th NSF/TCPP Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education (EduPar-20) in conjunction with the 34th IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium in beautiful New Orleans, LA but then the COVID-19 pandemic happened, and IPDPS went virtual. The EduPar'20 team did a fantastic job transitioning the conference to a virtual format, and I really enjoyed attending.
I was delighted to learn at the end of the conference that my paper, “PDCUnplugged: A Free Repository of Unplugged Parallel & Distributed Computing Activities” won the Best Paper award!
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Man, I have been waiting for nearly a year to write this post! I’m thrilled to announce that I am the West Point PI on the Collaborative Research Grant entitled, “Collaborative Research: CSinParallel: Experiential Learning of Parallel and Distributed Computing Through Sight, Sound, and Touch”. While I have been part of the CsinParallel leadership team since 2015, this is the first time I am participating as a PI! I am really excited about this award (especially since it is my first NSF grant), and looking forward to working with the CSinParallel team on this new endeavour!
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