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Foil 13 Summary of the VPL -- Virtual Programming Laboratory

From The National/Next Generation Information Infrastructure in the service of Education Training and Computational Science RCI Federal SIG Meeting Williamsburg Marriot -- April 17 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox *

1 Initially Aimed at education where usability higher priority than performance
2 Teaching Java and JavaScript greatly aided by interpreted technology which allow integration of demonstrations into lectures
3 VPL aimed at allowing embedding of F90, HPF and MPI (etc.) examples in lectures and convenient support of homeworks for transient inexperienced users.
4 Features of VPL:
  • Text Editor and File Manager
  • Web Interface for compilation and job submittal with simple aids such as prompts on HPF syntax, choice of platform and automatic makefiles
  • Client side Java applets for Performance and Data visualization
  • Security mechanisms

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