Distributed Computing Education, Part 4: Training Infrastructure

In the first article of this series, we identified the need for teaching environments that provide infrastructure to support education and training in distributed computing. Training infrastructure, or t-infrastructure, is analogous to the teaching laboratory in biology and is a vital tool for educa...

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Published inIEEE distributed systems online Vol. 9; no. 10; p. 2
Main Authors Fergusson, D., Barbera, R., Giorgio, E., Fargetta, M., Sipos, G., Romano, D., Atkinson, M., Meer, E.V.
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.10.2008
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subjects
Biology computing
Computational grids
computational science
Computer networks
Computer science education
cyberinfrastructure
Distributed computing
distributed computing education
Distributed processing
e-infrastructure
e-infrastructures
e-science
Education
Educational institutions
GILDA
grid
Grid computing
high-throughput computing
Infrastructure
integration
interoperation
knowledge transfer
Laboratories
Middleware
multi-middleware
Portals
scientific computing
summer schools
t-infrastructure
Teaching
Training
training infrastructure
Utility programs
Web portals
Winter
winter school
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Summary:In the first article of this series, we identified the need for teaching environments that provide infrastructure to support education and training in distributed computing. Training infrastructure, or t-infrastructure, is analogous to the teaching laboratory in biology and is a vital tool for educators and students. In practice, t- infrastructure includes the computing equipment, digital communications, software, data, and support staff necessary to teach a course. The International Summer Schools in Grid Computing (ISSGC) series and the first International Winter School on Grid Computing (IWSGC 08) used the Grid INFN Laboratory of Dissemination Activities (GILDA) infrastructure so students could gain hands-on experience with middleware. Here, we describe GILDA, related summer and winter school experiences, multimiddleware integration, t-infrastructure, and academic courses, concluding with an analysis and recommendations.
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ISSN:1541-4922
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DOI:10.1109/MDSO.2008.28