Preparing the Future Workforce in Supercomputing

Laura McGinnis works at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center as a manager of education, outreach and training. CREDIT: NSF View full size image

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Laura McGinnis is the manager of education, outreach and training at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center.

The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) provides university, government, and industrial researchers with access to several of the most powerful systems for high-performance computing, communications and data-handling available to scientists and engineers nationwide for unclassified research. PSC advances the state-of-the-art in high-performance computing, communications and informatics and offers a flexible environment for solving the largest and most challenging problems in computational science. As a resource provider in the National Science Foundation TeraGrid program of coordinated cyberinfrastructure for education and research, PSC works with its TeraGrid partners to harness the full range of information technologies to enable discovery in U.S. science and engineering.

Laura was interviewed for ScienceLives at the annual meeting of the AAAS held in Washington, DC, February 2011. Check out the video below to watch her responses to the 10 ScienceLives interview questions.

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