LittleFe buildout workshop (parts 1 & 2): hardware, software, and curriculum for parallel and distributed education (abstract only).

LittleFe buildout events are training and infrastructure opportunities for teams of accepted faculty and students from educational institutions across the United States to assemble LittleFe educational appliances (http://littlefe.net) and learn to use them in the classroom to teach parallel programming, cluster computing, and computational/data enabled science & engineering (CDESE). The buildout consists of participants assembling their LittleFe unit from a kit; installing the Bootable Cluster CD (BCCD, http://bccd.net) software on it; learning about the curriculum modules available for teaching parallel programming, High Performance Computing (HPC) and CDESE; and learning how to develop new curriculum modules for the LittleFe/BCCD platform.