Academic Journal
Remote DasaLAB: datacenter as a laboratory for remote learning
| Τίτλος: | Remote DasaLAB: datacenter as a laboratory for remote learning |
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| Συγγραφείς: | Guitart Fernández, Jordi, Costa Prats, Juan José |
| Συνεισφορές: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Arquitectura de Computadors, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. CROMAI - Computing Resources Orchestration and Management for AI, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. CRAAX - Centre de Recerca d'Arquitectures Avançades de Xarxes |
| Πηγή: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Στοιχεία εκδότη: | Informa UK Limited, 2024. |
| Έτος έκδοσης: | 2024 |
| Θεματικοί όροι: | IT education, Computació en núvol, Computer science -- Study and teaching (Higher), 4. Education, Ensenyament a distància, Informàtica -- Ensenyament Universitari, Remote labs, Datacenters, Distance education, Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors, Virtualization, Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Ensenyament i aprenentatge::TIC's aplicades a l'educació::Ensenyament virtual (eLearning), Cloud computing, Centres de càlcul, Data centers, Computer networks |
| Περιγραφή: | The pandemic situation banned the presence of teachers and students in the classrooms disrupting the typical teaching process. Videoconferencing services have been used successfully for lectures, but they are insufficient for hands-on laboratories where the physical presence is a requirement (i.e. to access specific hardware). Enabling remote access to the equipment allows to overcome this issue, but the students must share resources (temporarily or physically) and lack full control on the equipment. This is not optimal for some subjects, such as the practical labs on datacenter management, which are increasingly being added into the IT higher education curriculum. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a distributed laboratory environment, so-called Remote DasaLAB, to create and deploy virtual datacenters using the student's owned resources to support the practical training of students in remote (or hybrid) mode. This environment is flexible, cheap, easy to implement with available commodity resources (the students' computers) and provides full control over the platform. We also present a specific use case on leveraging Remote DasaLAB for the practical assignments of an Operating Systems subject, in which the students build a virtual datacenter composed of multiple nodes and can properly run a containerized application distributed in these nodes. This work was partially supported by Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya under grant G/22930/GEN: Projectes d’Innovació Docent 2021. |
| Τύπος εγγράφου: | Article |
| Περιγραφή αρχείου: | application/pdf |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| ISSN: | 1744-5191 1049-4820 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/10494820.2024.2309277 |
| Αριθμός Καταχώρησης: | edsair.doi.dedup.....2641a12c95281c3ffbcfce3774ca74c5 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | OpenAIRE |
| ISSN: | 17445191 10494820 |
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| DOI: | 10.1080/10494820.2024.2309277 |