28th Annual Supercomputing Challenge
Pushing the limits of "standard" computing du jour.
Class materials from the Kickoff Conference.
- Course Tracks
- Saturday Night Electives
- Meet the Scientist
- Flash Drive Content
Additional Material
Beginner Track
- Objective
- Hands-on activity
- Muddy City: Minimal Spanning Trees
- Your project is a complex system
- Research Project Cycle
- NetLogo Codes
- Intro to NetLogo Presentation (pdf)
- The Orange Game: Routing and Deadlock in Networks (Orange Game Presentation)
Intermediate Track
- Basic Traffic
- Intermediate Traffic
- Your project is a complex system
- Research Project Cycle
- NetLogo Codes
- The Orange Game: Routing and Deadlock in Networks (Orange Game Presentation)
Experienced Track
- Optimization
- Algorithms? (.pdf)
- Programming Skills for College
- Data Analysis and Linear Regression
- Simple Linear Regression (.pdf)
- Linear Regression files (.tar.gz)
- Coffee Mug Cooling (.cvs)
- Simple Linear Regression NetLogo model (.nlogo)
- High-Level Data Parallelism (pdf)
- Next Generation Computing (pdf)
Teacher Track
Meet the Scientist/Proposal Review
The facilitators/instructors/scientists will meet the students in their teams. The students will have copies of their proposals with them and their Computational Science Process form. The Meet the Scientist Proposal Review form will be filled out. Volunteer scientists should look over the Meet the Scientist (MTS) Overview Document.
The purpose of the session is to make sure teams have chosen a problem that is suitable for computational science, has measurable components so that a mathematical model can be developed, and from that a computing solution can be written. The session is secondarily about mentoring teams who have good proposals and are ready to get started on their projects. Meet the Scientist is a key session for helping students get off to a good start on their projects. For info about Proposals, see: Proposals.
It may be helpful to look at the proposal guidelines and the proposals that are already up on the Challenge web page – Proposals. There is also a link on the web page for questions to ask to direct the students: Team Project Development. Additionally, Areas of Science links to areas of science and may be helpful for teams still looking for an idea. This guidelines link can be useful, too. Challenge Guidelines. You can see which teams have submitted proposal on the proposals page of the Challenge web site, Proposals.
Here is the Agent Based Planning Document for Middle School teams choosing to do an Agent Based model.
Introduction to Computational Science and Modeling
- Introduction to Computational Science and Modeling (.pptx)
- Computational Science and Modeling including Mathematical Modeling (.pptx)
- Falling Rock Excel file (.xls)
- Burnt Frost video (.mp4)
- Patterns of Change and Mathematical Models (.pdf)
Report Writing Materials and Teamwork
- Survival Simulation (docx)
- Report Writing 101 (pdf)
- Report Writing Advanced (pptx)
- Report: How To (pdf)
- Writing: Be Clear (pdf)
- Template for the Proposal, Interim and Final reports (doc)
- Writing Teamwork Exercise handouts (docx)
- Some notes on writing a report (doc)
- See also Writing Reports resources
- Teaming Ideas
- Team Member Roles