Title :
Teaching Parallel and Distributed Computing Using a Cluster Computing Portal
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. & Math. Sci., Univ. of Houston-Downtown, Houston, TX, USA
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/IPDPSW.2013.35
