Location:
United States

Description:
The NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Earth and Space Data Computing Division (ESDCD) and the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) annually solicit applications from qualified graduate students to participate in an intensive summer lecture series in computational Earth and space sciences. The ESDCD provides comprehensive research and development support in data handling and computing for NASA Earth and space science research programs. Resident facilities include a 1024-processor Cray T3E, a Cray J90 cluster composed of three 32-processor Cray J90 systems, and several Beowulf-class systems (Beowulf is a class of inexpensive massively-parallel systems designed as a cluster of commodity PC's using LINUX). This program stems from ongoing activities that reflect NASA's desire to help train the next generation of Earth and space scientists in the development of computational techniques and algorithms for scalable parallel computers in support of the Federal High Performance Computing and Communications Program.

Approximately 15 students are selected annually to participate in the three-week program. The program aims to attract Ph.D. students in the Earth and space science disciplines whose present or future research requires large-scale numerical modeling on massively parallel architectures. Eligibility is normally limited to those Earth and space science students who are enrolled in U.S. universities and who have passed their Ph.D. qualifying exams. Because of NASA GSFC security regulations, citizens of certain prescribed nations may be ineligible. Students are given hands-on computer training and small group interaction experience. Experienced computational scientists present a series of lectures on advanced topics in computational Earth and space sciences, with emphasis on computational fluid dynamics and particle methods. Vendors present lectures on developing software for their massively parallel architectures. Both the Cray T3E and the Beowulf systems are available for use by the students.

Students receive a per diem and will be reimbursed for domestic transportation to and from Greenbelt, Maryland. Students are housed near Goddard Space Flight Center and transportation to and from Goddard each day is provided.

URL:
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/

Organization:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Goddard Space Flight Center
Universities Space Research Association (USRA)

Cost:
Free, participants selected by application

Contact:
Georgia L. Flanagan, Program Coordinator, USRA/HPCP, Code 930.5, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771; Phone: (301) 286-2080; Email: georgia@cesdis.usra.edu 

Education Level:
Doctorate

Subject:
Earth System Science
Remote Sensing

Program type:
Fellowship/Research Opportunity
Scholarship
Student Enrichment

Date Added to teachearth.com:
5/1/00