Research Initiatives
Digital Humanities Outreach
One of the objectives outlined in SHARCNET's Strategic Plan is to focus on broadening the
range of disciplines using HPC. In an effort to meet this objective, SHARCNET has made a
concerted outreach effort to the Digital Humanities. This has included running special DH workshops and targetted dedicated resources and fellowships competitions.
See the following documents and links for more information:
Youth Outreach
SHARCNET has taken a number of steps to outreach to K-12 students.
These activities are important in order to demonstrate the potential of
advanced and high-performance computing and its applicability in a
variety of disciplines, and to encourage students to think about
pursuing careers in the growing range of activities that depend on
effective use of these technologies. To help explain and demonstrate
what supercomputing is, SHARCNET has developed two prototype "Supercomputers-in-a-box" (S-I-B). These are
easily portable self-contained parallel computers that can be used to
demonstrate parallel computations and to show some simplified versions
of current research applications, across a variety of disciplines. These
have been used at Science Fairs and in presentations to groups of both
high school and grade school students and teachers to great success.
Subsequent phases of our youth outreach plan include generating a
tool-kit which will allow students to build their own S-I-B, followed by
students developing and running their own code. If your organization or
school is interested in a SHARCNET S-I-B presentation, please contact
info@sharcnet.ca.