P2P grid technology for virtual classrooms and laboratories

Computing technologies can play important role in Virtual Classrooms and Laboratories (VCL) and e-learning settings. In these systems, the underlying computing platforms enable large number of students across the globe to collaborate and interact with each other as well as with the learning components. A typical VCL can be setup based on a traditional or Peer-to-Pear (P2P) Grid Computing. While several VCLs are currently using the traditional Grid, few have been reported utilizing P2P Grid. The latter provides with an alternative computing system, which mainly targets the scalability of the system and often with improved flexibility and interactions. We studied whether P2P Grid could provide an improved platform over its counterpart. We inspected large number of systems, examples of which are presented in this paper. We scrutinized their features, capabilities, and performance. Our investigation indicates that P2P Grid exhibits a superior behavior over its traditional counterpart for VCL setting. This is especially true for courses such as Parallel Computing, Simulation, and Networking since P2P Grid offers accessing to larger scale computational and data resources as well as much improved collaborative environment in heterogeneous and distributed communities.

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