Large-scale intelligent agent simulations, enabled by high performance computing (HPC), have been effectively used by the Department of Defense for experimentation and analysis. The authors analyze their experiences in these and related areas, then present data and conclusions to support new applications of proven pedagogies to broaden the value of these capabilities across the areas of training and education. Over more than a decade, HPC has shown the ability to enable otherwise unattainable sizes of intelligent agent simulations, growing from small unit, to battlefield, to theater of war, and, finally, to global-scale operations. The techniques necessary to achieve these levels were imported and adapted from early supercomputing research in basic science projects at major universities. Among the insights from that research were the reductions of validity and utility suffered when constrained samples of the subject phenomena were simulated. This paper extends that concept into the discipline of education and demonstrates the putative desirability of having large-scale capabilities in the educational environment as well. The authors describe the available technologies for large-scale simulations, review the successes of experimentation and analysis enabled by those technologies, and outline the many opportunities for implementation in education. They then focus on early experimentation using distributed HPC to aid in technical and non-technical education for all age cohorts. They lay out a roadmap for future development and for assessments of applicability of their techniques by others who should benefit from such capabilities. Cost/benefit analyses are invoked to assist the potential users in making valid evaluations of the applicability of these proven techniques to their own uses. The development of an interactive educational module is outlined, described and lessons learned are reported. A test on a trans-continental meta-computing platform will be reported from the viewpoint of both HPC performance and educational efficacy.