HPCC Systems for Academia
Are you interested in new internship opportunities for your students, expanding research opportunities and attending special events with industry leaders to share knowledge and expertise?
The HPCC Systems Team collaborates with multiple colleges, universities, high schools and institutions of higher learning around the world to help train and develop the future managers of Big Data projects for Big Data Processing, Big Data Analytics, Big Data Delivery, Compiler Optimization or Programming Language Development.
Faculty, from participating institutions, receive free training classes and training materials to learn the platform and help incorporate it into their curriculum to give their students a competitive edge.
Students benefit from learning and working with a platform that was designed from the ground up to manage Big Data. Through this collaboration and internship opportunities, students receive free training materials, hands-on exercises to solve real business problems and access to the platform.
Join our Academic Community
Benefits of joining the community
- Workshops: Instructors, training material and cloud infrastructure can be facilitated in an onsite or remote classroom environment to teach students the fundamentals of big data Extraction, Transformation and Load (ETL) with HPCC Systems. See an example of our workshops.
- Hackathons: Support for coding events where students are presented with a big data challenge to be solved using HPCC Systems. Mentorship (onsite or remote), cloud infrastructure resources and judging support can be facilitated to support the event. Read about one of our hackathons.
- Internship Opportunities: 12-week remote and mentored internships are offered every summer where students from high school to PhD levels can develop an open source big data project using HPCC Systems. View projects developed by previous interns.
- Invitation-only conference: Academic partners and members of the community are welcome to submit their work to the annual HPCC Systems conference for potential presentation (subject to review and approval). Learn more about this year’s conference.
- Curriculum support: Mentorship for faculty staff to leverage HPCC Systems as part of their curriculum so students can develop foundational skills for big data manipulation, query and analysis. Read about a successful partnership.
- Research support: Throughout the years, HPCC Systems has directly supported academic research and co-authored papers with different academic partners around the globe. View a list of academic publications.
Resources
- Hear an overview of the HPCC Systems Internship Program
- Learn more about the HPCC Systems Internship Program
- Read through our academia testimonials
- Leverage our introductory online training in your curriculum
Participating organizations include:
- American Heritage School
- Clemson University
- Florida Atlantic University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Imperial College of London
- Kennesaw State University
- NC State University
- New College of Florida
- NSU University School
- R.V. College of Engineering (RVCE)
- University of Georgia
- University of Oxford
- University of São Paulo
- And more
Have a Question?
Contact us for more information on our Academic Community.