Open Education Cup honors two Connexions writers
Two writers for Connexions (Ken Busbee, a computer science professor at Houston Community College and Tim Stitt of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre) were among winners in the 2008-09 Open Education Cup, a competition for those who create modules on high-performance computing for the Rice-sponsored repository for open-access educational materials.
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High Performance Computing Book - Republished on Connexions Thanks to my publisher (O'Reilly and Associates) and my editor Mike Loukides, and the Connexions team, (Daniel Williamson, Kathi Fletcher, and Jan Odegard) my "High Performance Computing" book has been republished on Connexions (www.cnx.org). The book is freely available on the web and in PDF and on-demand printable for the cost of printing and shipping. The entire contents of the book is CC-BY license so it can be remixed and republished by anyone who wants to adapt the book.
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HPC Open Education Cup Winners Announced Connexions, in cooperation with the Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology at Rice University, is pleased to announce the winners of the 2008-2009 Open Education Cup. The competition, introduced during the SC08 conference, challenged educators and researchers to produce open access education and training modules on various aspects of high performance computing. The winners, Tim Stitt, Ph.D., of the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS) and Kenneth Leroy Busbee of Houston Community College, each received $500 cash prizes.
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