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Foil 6 Is Distance Education A Grid Opportunity?

From What Applications are Grids Good for? Grids 98 Drake Hotel Chicago -- July 27-28 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox
1 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)
2 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
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