Is Distance Education A Grid Opportunity?
So if the connectivity and institutional resolve existed, I could offer distance education/training in
- Certificate in Computational Science to all interested DoD/DoE/NSF/NASA Supercomputer users (1000's of simultaneous customers -- 6 hours a week for 2 months)
- Certificate in Internetics to all Community College and HBCU senior undergraduates (10,000's of customers -- 6 hours a week for 8 months)
- Java as a graphic Introduction to Programming for Grades 6-12 (millions of customers -- 2 hours a week for 3 months)
Need per customer a (shared) PC with CDROM and Sound card
- Excellent (multicast) Quality of Service and
- 30 kbits/sec (audio only), 100 kbits/sec (H263 video), megabit or so/sec for MPEG