Today, it is attempted to present less complicated
e-learning. With the growth of cloud computing in any field
of application especially in distance education, the necessary
infrastructure for migrating to the cloud is provided.
Keeping coordination between educational content and
educational sites, providing high quality education and
resource sharing are among the characteristics of the cloud
space. Cloud computing trough providing proper
architecture allows the educational environments to provide
an updated, efficient and dynamic based on their policies and
rules. In this study, a specific supersaturated education cloud
is used that allocates more logical resources than the
available physical resources. The number of tasks performed
by a supersaturated cloud is several times greater than the
common clouds. In order to maximize the efficiency of a
supersaturated cloud, tasks should be provided for the cloud
continuously. On the other hand the requests on the grids are
declined due to energy savings. Thus the grid and the cloud
can be complementary technologies that in case of
combination, the cloud reduces the tasks created by the grid.
Thus by creating a grid on cloud by installing the middleware
grid on cloud machines the cloud and grid deficiencies are
compensated and the advantages are increased.
In this chapter the grid on cloud method was compared
with the cloud method in three tests on a virtual education
class and the results were presented as four different tests.
As it was observed, the grid on cloud method
outperformed the cloud method at all tests and thus the
efficiency of cloud based educational classes was
increased by grid on cloud method.
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