Target Audience: Undergraduate with 3D math and physics background (senior)
Description: Medium-sized project that simulates the n-body problem (multiple non-colliding celestial objects influencing each other through gravity). Uses OpenGL and FreeGlut for visualization. Includes three versions for both Windows and Linux: serial, OpenMP, and CILK.
Since the kickoff of the High School Parallelism bootcamp this summer, I've received several requests for a write up of the five role playing activities we used.
The activities put students in the place of procesor cores and had them perform tasks in parallel. These activities proved to be popular among many of the students at the camp, however, some of the more advanced students did express that they felt the exercsies could seem childish.
