BATON ROUGE, La. –Southern University senior computer science major, Jeffrey Morgan, is one of five students from universities throughout the state preparing to compete as a team at the Student Programming Contest during the Supercomputing Conference 2009 in Portland, Ore., on Nov. 16.
Morgan, a Fort Worth, Texas native, along with team members Lei Jiang, LSU Joshua Hitchins, Louisiana Tech University, Cory Redfern, University of New Orleans, and Nikhil Shetty, University of Louisiana at Lafayette meet every Friday on a video conference from their schools to figure out problems from various computational science disciplines.
"Our hardest problems involve parallel programming,” said Morgan. “Parallel programming operations and equations for a complex problem can be separated and solved simultaneously across multiple computers and brought back together in the end. This allows a problem to be solved in a fraction of the time that it would take a single computer."
The team will receive eight to 12 computational problems at the contest, so preparation beforehand is important.
“The problems are hard,” added Morgan who said he found out about the collaboration from Dr. Ebrahim Khosravi, chair of the Department of Computer Science.
“He told me about it and it sounded interesting,” said Morgan. “This collaboration has helped me learn a lot. I wouldn’t be able to answer those problems on my own.”
Morgan and the student team will continue to meet each Friday to practice programming exercises until the competition date, where they will compete against other student teams.
The Supercomputing Conference is recognized globally as the premier international conference on high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis. The conference will feature the most interesting and innovative high performance computing scientific and technical applications from around the world.
Posted By: LaKeeshia Giddens
Tuesday, November 3rd 2009 at 5:56PM
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