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: 0737208
• 负责人: Yaohang Li
• 金额: $ 1.8万
• 依托单位: North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University
• 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 2010-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0737208&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.

计算机科学（31）网格计算结合了地理分布的计算资源，以进行高性能计算；它特别适合合作，跨学科和实验项目。 为了利用网格计算的功能，通常需要用户来管理低级基础架构详细信息并使用非直觉命令行执行运行程序。 该项目正在响应使编程界面通常在网格计算社区中更易于使用的需求，但尤其是对于成为下一代专业用户的本科生。 特别是，该项目正在探索最近引入的网格计算工作流程编辑器来教学分布式计算和使用网格计算资源。Workflow编辑器为用户提供图形接口，并启用在不需要低级编程或命令线交互的情况下构建和执行的分布式计算。 通过允许不同学科的科学家使用网格计算的资源几乎没有或根本没有编程经验来创造解决方案，从而为网格计算的成功做出了贡献。该项目的主要研究人员具有广泛的经验，并且在网格计算方面已广泛发表。 该项目中开发的材料正在在两个主要的合作机构中进行评估，这些机构正在开发材料并在本地和集体上进行测试，这些机构是在更多样化的教育环境中评估开发材料的另一家机构，并由独立的专业教育评估者进行评估。 这些材料是通过全州范围内的Televideo网络部分分发的，该网络将达到16个州立大学。