A Grid Portal for an Undergraduate Parallel Programming Course

Author

Touriño, Juan ; Martín, María J. ; Tarrío, Jacobo ; Arenaz, Manuel

Author_Institution

Comput. Archit. Group, Univ. of A Coruna, Spain

Volume

48

Issue

3

fYear

2005

Firstpage

391

Lastpage

399

Abstract

This paper describes an experience of designing and implementing a portal to support transparent remote access to supercomputing facilities to students enrolled in an undergraduate parallel programming course. As these facilities are heterogeneous, are located at different sites, and belong to different institutions, grid computing technologies have been used to overcome these issues. The result is a grid portal based on a modular and easily extensible software architecture that provides a uniform and user-friendly interface for students to work on their programming laboratory assignments.

Keywords

computer science education; educational courses; grid computing; portals; user interfaces; grid computing; grid portal; supercomputing facilities; transparent remote access; undergraduate parallel programming course; user-friendly interface; Computer architecture; Computer science; Concurrent computing; Education; Grid computing; Jacobian matrices; Parallel processing; Parallel programming; Portals; Supercomputers; Grid computing; grid portal; parallel programming; supercomputing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Education, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9359

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TE.2004.842888

Filename

1495646