Using Grid Computing and PVFS2 Technologies for Construction of an e-Learning Environment

Authors:
Chao-Tung Yang;Hsin-Chuan Ho;Chien-Tung Pan
Affiliations:
Tunghai University;Tunghai University;Tunghai University
Venue:
ICALT '05 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies
Year:
2005

Citing 4
Cited 0

e-Learning: making it happen now

SIGUCCS '02 Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services
Concepts and Technologies for a Worldwide Grid Infrastructure

Euro-Par '02 Proceedings of the 8th International Euro-Par Conference on Parallel Processing
Implementation and performance of a parallel file system for high performance distributed applications

HPDC '96 Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing
Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality

Grid Computing: Making the Global Infrastructure a Reality

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

In recent years, e-Learning has become a popular method of learning. Generally, an e-Learning Platform which provided multi-media content required a high capacity storage device such as NAS (Network Attached Storage) or SAN (Storage Area Network). However, many schools with insufficient budgets cannot afford this type of expensive equipment. Thus, we employ Grid Computing and PVFS (Parallel Virtual file system) technology to integrate the idling storage resources in the school as a means to substitute the purchase of an expensive high-level storage server. In this research we will link several sets of PCs in the school to make them armed with the storage and computing capacity like that of a high-end server. We hope the goal of sharing and reuse of resources among the schools can be achieved.