The role of high performance computing in precollege education

The authors describe a program in Alabama which has led to a secondary school curriculum for training students to use high-performance computational methods in mathematics and science. The training material developed has been offered as a professional development course for Alabama teachers in computer science, physics, chemistry or mathematics. The result of inservice training for these teachers has been the incorporation of a course into their curricula which teaches the fundamentals of high performance computing and which allows the students to develop science or mathematics projects which utilize Alabama's Cray X-MP for their solutions. This program has been implemented in schools throughout Alabama during the past two years and is now being used by teachers and students across the nation.<
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