Computer Science Classes Visit Dartmouth
Students in KUA’s AP Computer Science and Computer Science classes visited nearby Dartmouth College at the beginning of the month to tour the College’s Research Computing and High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities.
Kimball Union’s close proximity to Dartmouth College makes it easy for classes and athletic teams to visit campus and engage with faculty and students at the collegiate level.
Dartmouth’s Research Computing facilitates the advancement of faculty and student research by providing leading-edge computing services. Using HPC resources, researchers can run compute-intensive, large-memory programs quickly and efficiently, and store data securely and accessibly.
Following the tour, students met with Christopher Callahan, a doctoral candidate in the geography department. Callahan, whose research focuses on the economic impacts of climate change, utilizes the HPC to support his climate modeling research.
“I am excited to learn more about the practical application of coding, especially in relation to biomedical research as that is the field that I am interested in,” said Louella ’23 after the visit.
At KUA, students in AP Computer Science are learning how to write, run, test, and debug using the Java language in a college-level introductory computer science course that will further develop their algorithmic thinking and problem-solving skills.
Elijah Gagne, assistant director of high-performance computing, told the class that working in research computing is about “helping faculty and students problem solve. We’re moving toward the question: What’s the right problem to solve?”
