Broadening Participation in the Workshop on Leveraging High Performance Computing Resources for Big Data Management

University Of Texas At Austin, Austin TX

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Abstract

The goal of the proposed project is to broaden the participation of the individuals from underrepresented groups in the "First Hands-On Workshop on Leveraging High Performance Computing Resources for Managing Large Datasets". This one-day workshop has been accepted by the 2014 IEEE Big Data conference, and is tentatively scheduled to be held on October 27, 2014 in Washington DC. The objective of the workshop is to engage its participants in using the national Cyberinfrastructure (CI) for Big Data management activities, thereby enhancing the possibilities of making discoveries in the areas of data-driven and data-intensive computing. Through the proposed project, 20 students from underrepresented groups will be funded to participate in the aforementioned workshop, and will also be supported to participate in additional activities at the conference.