LittleFe:application

Application for an Intel/EAPF LittleFe

Notes:

• Flavors of application:
  • Designated: Assembled unit delivered to your institution.
  • OU Build-out: Attend the Intermediate Parallel Programming and Cluster Computing workshop at OU on XXX
  • SC11 Build-out: Attend the Build-out hosted by the SC Education Program at SC11 in Seattle
• Items the three application types have in common:
  • Individual and institutional commitment as shown with a letter outlining their commitment to incorporating the LittleFe/BCCD into their curriculum and to the development of new parallel programming or cluster computing curriculum modules. On institutional letterhead signed by someone(s) with the authority to make those commitments.
  • Take-back clause, that is after one year of quarterly check-ins if the plans outlined in the letter have not been met we can recall the unit.

    This and related policies will need to be vetted by the "granting agency", ACM/EAPF.  Check with Donna Capo.

    We also need to identify who pays shipping, if take-back is necessary.

• Items that are different for each application:
  • The build-it-yourself options require that a team of two people (faculty and student or two faculty) apply.

Designated

• This option is only available to institutions selected by representatives of Intel and the SC Education Program. Between 5 and 10 LittleFe units will be available through this mechanism. Institutions can request to be part of the OU or SC11 build group.

Build-out at Intermediate Parallel Workshop @ OU in Norman, Oklahoma

• Ability to arrive by Sunday morning for the build session which will take place Sunday afternoon.
• Built units are FOB OU. Recipients are responsible for all shipping costs from OU back to their home institution, typically an extra bag charge for recipients that arrived by airplane.
• Between 5 and 10 LittleFe units will be available through this mechanism.

Build-out at SC11 in Seattle, Washington

• Availability all or part of the two build slots on each of Sunday and Monday afternoon, and for the three build slots on each of Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon of the conference. Preference may be given to institutions with needed build slot availability.
• Built units are FOB SC11. Recipients are responsible for all shipping costs from SC11 back to their home institution, typically an extra bag charge for recipients that arrived by airplane.
• Between 5 and 10 LittleFe units will be available through this mechanism.