California State University, Fresno

California State University, Fresno will create a high performance computing facility focusing on undergraduate teaching and research.  The Computational Science Center (CSC) will establish collaboration spaces and computer clusters to facilitate the interdisciplinary flow of faculty, students and knowledge across conventional departmental barriers.  Providing computing resources not currently available to undergraduates promises to revolutionize teaching and research.  The CSC will be used in updated undergraduate courses in bioinformatics, seismic data processing, climate modeling, and parallel programming and architecture, as well as an exciting new general education course open to all majors: Compo Sci. 100, “Introduction to Scientific Computing.”  The CSC aligns with the College of Science and Mathematics emphasis on undergraduate research as a major force in student success.  Finally, the use of collaboration spaces and the collaborative approaches to computational science are key because problems requiring cluster computing are typically solved cooperatively, and employers value graduates with experience working in heterogeneous teams.