Award Abstract #0754951
REU Site: Supercomputing Undergraduate Program in Maine (SuperMe)

NSF Org:	CCF Division of Computer and Communication Foundations
Initial Amendment Date:	February 21, 2008
Latest Amendment Date:	February 21, 2008
Award Number:	0754951
Award Instrument:	Continuing grant
Program Manager:	Eun K. Park CCF Division of Computer and Communication Foundations CSE Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
Start Date:	February 15, 2008
Expires:	January 31, 2009 (Estimated)
Awarded Amount to Date:	$99985
Investigator(s):	Yifeng Zhu zhu@eece.maine.edu(Principal Investigator) Bruce Segee (Co-Principal Investigator)
Sponsor:	University of Maine 5717 Corbett Hall ORONO, ME 04469 207/581-1484
NSF Program(s):	RSCH EXPER FOR UNDERGRAD SITES
Field Application(s):	0000912 Computer Science
Program Reference Code(s):	HPCC,9250,9218,9152,7736
Program Element Code(s):	T787,1139

ABSTRACT



This award, for a new Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site,

builds a Supercomputing Undergraduate Program in Maine (SuperMe). This

new site provides ten-week summer research experiences at the University

of Maine (UMaine) for ten undergraduates each year for three years. With

integrated expertise of ten faculty researchers from both computer

systems and domain applications, SuperMe allows each undergraduate to

conduct meaningful research, such as developing supercomputing techniques

and tools, and solving cutting-edge research problems through parallel

computing and scientific visualization. Besides being actively involved

in research groups, students attend weekly seminars given by faculty

mentors, formally report and present their research experiences and

results, conduct field trips, and interact with ITEST, RET and GK-12

participants.

SuperMe provides scientific exploration ranging from engineering to

sciences with a coherent intellectual focus on supercomputing. It

consists of four computer systems projects that aim to improve

techniques in grid computing, parallel I/O data accesses,

high-resolution scientific visualization and information security,

and five computer modeling projects that utilize world-class

supercomputing and visualization facilities housed at UMaine to

perform large, complex simulation experiments and data analysis in

different science domains. SuperMe provides a diversity of cutting-edge

research opportunities to students from under-represented groups or from

universities in rural areas with limited research opportunities. Through

interacting directly with the participant of existing programs at UMaine,

including ITEST, RET and GK-12, REU students disseminates their research

results and experiences to middle and high school students and teachers.

This site is co-funded by the Department of Defense in partnership

with the NSF REU Site program.

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