Title :
A grid computing environment for undergraduate research
Author :
Lin, Hong ; Ganov, Borislav ; Kemp, Jeremy ; Gilbert, Padraic
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 student research. We will firstly a project for building, configuring, and maintaining the cluster in the lab. The computing resources of the cluster are managed by a job distribution environment that allows the users to upload, compile, and run their jobs. The job distribution software distributes the submitted jobs to the computing nodes of the cluster. Load balancing issues are addressed. Next, we present student research activities performed on the cluster. We will present two related projects that aim to implement the Chemical Reaction Models (CRM) on the cluster using TSpace, and implement CRM on a GPU machine. Participating students were actively involved in presentation and publication of research results.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; further education; graphics processing units; grid computing; resource allocation; CRM; CRM implement; GPU machine; TSpace clustering; chemical reaction models; cluster computing lab; cluster computing nodes; cluster management; computing resources; grid computing environment; job distribution environment; job distribution software; load balancing; undergraduate student research; Chemical elements; Computational modeling; Graphics processing unit; Grid computing; Tuple Space; computing cluster; human-computer interface; the Chemical Reaction Models; undergraduate education; user portal;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering and Service Science (ICSESS), 2012 IEEE 3rd International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-2007-8
DOI :
10.1109/ICSESS.2012.6269395
