+++ draft = false date = "2017-05-29" title = "RAI: A Scalable Project Submission System for Parallel Programming Courses" authors = ["Adbul Dakkak", "Carl Pearson", "Cheng Li"] abstract = 'A major component of many advanced programming courses is an open-ended “end-of-term project” assignment. Delivering and evaluating open-ended parallel programming projects for hundreds or thousands of students brings a need for broad system reconfigurability coupled with challenges of testing and development uniformity, access to esoteric hardware and programming environments, scalability, and security. We present RAI, a secure and extensible system for delivering open-ended programming assignments configured with access to different hardware and software requirements. We describe how the system was used to deliver a programming-competition-style final project in an introductory GPU programming course at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.' image = "" image_preview = "" math = false publication = "*Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops, 2017 IEEE International.* IEEE, 2017." url_code = "" url_dataset = "" url_pdf = "pdf/rai-edupar2017.pdf" url_project = "" url_slides = "" url_video = "" selected = true +++