A novel enhanced education application of Cloud computing

Abstract

Share and innovation of education resource is one of the urgent issues nowadays, In this paper we proposed an innovatory computing paradigm merging volunteer contributing and Cloud approaches into EduCloud@Home in the education project. This proposal represents a solution for building Clouds, starting from heterogeneous and independent nodes. This can implement a generalization of both Volunteer and Cloud computing by aggregating the computational potentialities of many small, low power systems of rich education resource, exploiting the long tail effect of computing. The basic idea is to reuse “domestic” computing resources to build voluntary contributors' Clouds in the education application project. With the enhanced EduCloud@Home, anyone can experience the power of Cloud computing, both actively providing teacher or students' own resources and services, and passively submitting their applications.