A Grid Portal for an Undergraduate Parallel Programming Course

[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.Universidade da Coruña; UDC-TIC03-057Xunta de Galicia; PGIDIT02TIC00103CTXunta de Galicia; PGIDIT04TIC105004PREuropean Commission; IST-2001-3224

A Grid Portal for an Undergraduate Parallel Programming Course

This paper describes an experience of designing and implementing a portal to support trans-parent 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 is-sues. 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 lab assignments