Our approach to HPC Fundamentals will be as follows:
comprehension of system-level operations
collaboration/documentation: to ensure everyone (as best as possible) is participating time and effort, my plan is to release projects verbally, yet require the class to compose all the project pages. The readability, correctness, organization, usefulness of the resulting documents will be evaluated and count as discrete project alongside other projects.
deeper explorations on a variety of topics (for example):
bittorrent
blockchain
virtualization
cluster
interactive: I've grown tired of preparing and polishing things only to have so many ignoring my efforts, seeking out only the shortest path to jump through the latest hoop. I would like us all to do the legwork necessary to figure stuff out (also where some of the documentation efforts will come in handy).
Note that there are THREE (3) things due before the end of Wednesday this first week:
hfi0
wcp1
week1 journal entry (which I plan to count as bonus; at the very least earn yourself a few points by removing the filler text).