The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
Workshop: EduHPC-25: Workshop on Education for High Performance Computing
Authors: Clara Almeida (University of California, Santa Cruz); Elizabeth Shoop (Macalester College); Diego García-Álvarez (Universidad de Vallodolid); Arturo Gonzalez-Escribano (Universidad de Valladolid); David Guerrero-Pantoja (University of California, Santa Cruz); Cameron Maloney and Maria Pantoja (California Polytechnic State University); Silvio Rizzi (Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)); and David P. Bunde (Knox College)
Abstract: Peachy Parallel Assignments are high-quality assignments that require students to practice concepts in parallel and distributed computing. They are selected competitively and published in the Edu* workshops to provide instructors with inspiration and easy-to-adopt assignments. The assignments must have been successfully tested with real students, easy to adopt by other instructors in a variety of contexts, and ``cool and inspirational'' for students completing them.
This article presents three Peachy Parallel Assignments selected for presentation at EduHPC 2025.
The first is simulation of the growth of ``fairy rings'', a biologically-motivated variation of the Game of Life. The second assignment asks students to simulate flooding over uneven terrain and in the presence of active rainfall. The third assignment has them implement the softmax function in parallel, motivated by applications in deep learning.
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