Overall Design of VPL

It is a client-server architecture - a central Web server serves/coordinates the access requests to local computational resources.
Users are represented with a “form” interface where they fill out / select the services that they require.
VPL supports access to course materials and tutorials as well as a programming interface to run
- HPF / Fortran 90 programs
- MPI programs written in C / Fortran 77 / JAVA programs

on parallel machines.