Collaborative Research: Enhancing Teaching of Grid Computing to Undergraduate Students by using a Workflow Editor

协作研究：使用工作流编辑器加强本科生的网格计算教学

• 批准号: 0737318
• 负责人: Clayton Ferner
• 金额: $ 7.12万
• 依托单位: University of North Carolina at Wilmington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-07-01 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0737318&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Enhancing; Teaching; Grid

Computer Science (31)Grid computing combines geographically distributed computation resources to carry out high performance computing; it is particularly suitable for collaborative, interdisciplinary, and experimental projects. To take advantage of the power of grid computing, users have typically been required to manage low-level infrastructure details and to run programs using non-intuitive command-line execution. This project is responding to the need to make the programming interfaces easier to use in the grid computing community generally, but especially for undergraduate students who become the next generation of professional users. In particular, this project is exploring the use of a recently introduced grid-computing workflow editor for teaching distributed computing and for using grid computing resources.Workflow editors provide graphical interfaces for users and enable distributed computations to be constructed and executed without the need for low level programming or command-line interaction. Workflow editors are seen to contribute to the success of grid computing by allowing scientists of varying disciplines to create solutions to their problems using the resources of grid computing with little or no programming experience.The Principal Investigators in this project have broad experience and have published widely in grid computing. The materials developed in this project are being assessed at the two primary collaborating institutions that are developing the materials and testing them locally and collectively, at one additional institution that is evaluating the developed materials in a more diverse educational setting, and by an independent professional educational evaluator. The materials are being distributed in part through a statewide televideo network that will reach sixteen state universities.

网格计算结合地理上分布的计算资源来执行高性能计算;它特别适合于协作，跨学科和实验项目。 为了利用网格计算的强大功能，用户通常需要管理底层基础设施的细节，并使用非直观的命令行执行来运行程序。 这个项目是响应的需要，使编程接口更容易使用的网格计算社区一般，但特别是对本科生谁成为下一代的专业用户。 特别是，这个项目正在探索使用最近推出的网格计算工作流编辑器，用于教学分布式计算和使用网格计算资源。工作流编辑器为用户提供图形界面，使分布式计算的构建和执行，而不需要低层次的编程或命令行交互。 工作流编辑器被认为有助于网格计算的成功，它允许不同学科的科学家使用网格计算的资源来创建解决方案，而这些科学家几乎没有编程经验。 两个主要合作机构正在对该项目编制的材料进行评估，这两个机构正在编制材料并在当地和集体进行测试，另外一个机构正在对在更多样化的教育环境中编制的材料进行评估，一名独立的专业教育评估员正在对这些材料进行评估。 这些材料正在通过全州范围的电视网络分发，该网络将覆盖16所州立大学。