Requirement #7: Visit

\(\boxed{\mathbb{REQ}\Large \rightsquigarrow}\) Do ALL of the following requirements.

  1. Visit a company/school/institution where computer programs are being developed.

  2. Talk to someone there about how they use coding in their work. Write down at least five questions to ask the person you visit and review the answers with your counselor

  3. Discuss with your counselor how coding is being used at the destination you visited.

Note

What is a supercomputer?

A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second (FLOPS) instead of million instructions per second (MIPS). Since 2017, there are supercomputers which can perform over 1017 FLOPS (a hundred quadrillion FLOPS, 100 petaFLOPS or 100 PFLOPS). Since November 2017, all of the world’s fastest 500 supercomputers run Linux-based operating systems. Additional research is being conducted in the United States, the European Union, Taiwan, Japan, and China to build faster, more powerful and technologically superior exascale supercomputers (text adapted from wikipedia).

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AiMOS, one of most powerful supercomputers at a private university, built to focus on AI (artifical intelligence) research (Image obtained from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).

Attention

Once you have completed this requirement, make sure you document it in your worksheet!