Resources Needed by ICWU
Central (albeit distributed) Compute Servers will be supplied by selected participating institutions e.g. for homework and examples on CGI, Databases etc.
Appropriate networking is essential.
- Eventually one expects to need the bandwidth and quality of service needed to support multimedia delivery including audio-video conferencing (roughly a minimum of 100 kilobits per second)
- Initially minimum requirement is a internet connection allowing synchronous chat rooms, interactive access to compute servers and batch updates of replicated web servers
- Some of initial course delivery systems will use and need higher quality links