This is request for student travel support to attend IEEE Cluster 2013, a conference with technical focus on computer cluster technology to be held 23-27 September 2013 in Indianapolis, IN.
This award is to make travel scholarships available to students and universities not typically represented at Cluster conference in order to improve the conference's impact and outreach.
The Cluster 2013 student travel scholarships will be used to target students that are typically underrepresented at Cluster and similar computer science conferences. This includes students from primarily undergraduate institutions, historically black colleges and universities, minority-serving institutions, tribal colleges and universities, and institutions with strong programs serving persons with disabilities.
The IEEE Cluster Computing 2013 Conference was held Sept 23-27, 2013 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Because of funding provided by the NSF and conference bronze and silver sponsors, along with additional monies provided by IU's Pervasive Technology Institute, 22 students were awarded complimentary registration (along with one chaperone/advisor) and an additional 10 students were awarded reduced registration. Eighteen of the 32 were also given partial or complete travel funding to attend the conference. Specific student-oriented activities included: a Student dinner and tour of IU PTI Research Technologies Advanced Visualization Lab and GRNOC Facilities matching of faculty or professional mentors with each who provided answers to questions and advanced student networking opportunities Inclusion in student-centric categories in the poster track, technical track, and the visualization showcase Eligibility for awards in all tracks, whether or not the track was designated as "student" Tutorials Workshops, including "LittleFe and the Bootable Cluster CD – An Education and Outreach Appliance" Volunteer opportunities throughout the conference A trip to the IU Data Center in Bloomington, Indiana, to learn more about Big Red II and IU’s supercomputing facilities and capabilities Given the broad and cross-disciplinary nature of computer science in the physical and computational sciences, as well as in other areas including data-instensive analysis of social, political, and economic data, and applications in the arts and humanities, the potential impact on society by these students is significant.
