Teaching Parallel and Distributed Computing Using a Cluster Computing Portal

Author

Hong Lin

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Math. Sci., Univ. of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX, USA

fYear

2013

fDate

20-24 May 2013

Firstpage

1312

Lastpage

1317

Abstract

This paper presents the establishment of cluster computing lab at a minority serving institution that aims to provide computing resources to support undergraduate computer science curriculum. We present a case study of using this platform to teach parallel and distributed computing topics in the operating system course. The evaluation of the teaching effectiveness is presented thereafter.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer science education; educational courses; further education; operating systems (computers); parallel processing; portals; teaching; workstation clusters; cluster computing lab; cluster computing portal; computing resources; distributed computing topics; minority serving institution; operating system course; parallel computing topics; teaching; undergraduate computer science curriculum; Education; Multicore processing; Operating systems; Portals; Programming profession; Synchronization; cluster computing; lab platform; parallel computing; undergraduate education; user portal;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops & PhD Forum (IPDPSW), 2013 IEEE 27th International

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-4979-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IPDPSW.2013.35

Filename

6651022