Adventures in SuperComputing - Summer Teacher Institute
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Abstract
All teams must complete an abstract describing what their project will be and how they will attempt to complete it. Remember abstracts are short and concise — no more than 250 words.
An abstract for the Supercomputing Challenge is a brief description of the scientific problem that your team plans to solve. In the abstract, you must clearly state
- What the problem is, the definition of the problem
- Why it is important, the purpose of the project or what results you hope to get
- How you plan to work on it, plan of action or methods you hope to get.
The abstract is helpful to both you and the judges who will access the completed projects. Preparing the abstract helps the team define exactly what its project will be. After you pin down the problem that you will solve, you must devise a plan of action, in other words, decide how you will solve the problem. This plan of action will guide your work during the year. The plan may include doing research, writing a computer program, analyzing data, talking to people in that particular field, and drawing conclusions. The judges will read each abstract to get an initial impression of the project.
Here is an example for the AiS Challenge:
The AiS Challenge is an exciting program that offers a truly unique experience to students in our state. The opportunity to work on the most powerful computers in the world is currently available to only a very few students in the entire United States, but in New Mexico, it is just one of the benefits of living in the "Land of Enchantment."
The AiS Challenge is a program encompassing the school year in which
teams of students complete science projects using high-performance supercomputers.
Each team of one to five students and a sponsoring teacher defines and
works on a single computational project of its own choosing.
