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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY /
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Systems/Enterprise:
SUN PICKS KERALA, INDIA FOR GRID
LEARNING CENTER
Sun Microsystems Inc has named Indian Institute of Information Technology
and
Management-Kerala (IIITM-K) as a Sun Regional Center of Excellence (COE) for
E-Learning. The first regional COE selected in India, IIITM-K becomes one of
the four universities in the world to be recognized by Sun and the academic
community as leading edge researchers in e-learning technologies.
IIITM-K has empowered students and staff to study when they like, where
they
like and how they like by putting in place an advanced e-learning program
called Education Grid. With the Education Grid, students can take classes from
anywhere, logging onto the Internet to listen to and review their lectures,
and holding tutorial discussions via an online forum. The Education Grid is
based on TeN's Academic E-learning application, running on Sun's servers.
K Srivatsan, director of IIITM-K, said, "This institution is honored to be
selected as a Sun Center of Excellence. We see our collaboration with Sun as
key to fully utilizing emerging technologies to further our research efforts.
Our work will continue to push the boundaries of e-learning, given our
commitment to the Knowledge Campus concept, where a university utilizes
enabling technologies to focus on knowledge production."
"IIITM-K was the natural choice as the first India Regional COE. The
research
IIITM-K conducts exemplifies the principles of Sun's COE program --
innovations that bring real world results," said Andrew Lim, director of Asia
South, Global Education and Research for Sun Microsystems. "This further
collaboration will complement the excellent foundation we have built together
in IIITM-K."
"Working with IIITM-K, we're combining the top minds in computing with the
industry's best technology, and we are confident that these projects will see
great success," said Vishal Dhupar, director of sales at Sun Microsystems
India Pvt Ltd. "Sun is focused on advancing Grid Computing technology to help
transform critical university research into future products and competitive
advantages that will affect not only academia, but also the commercial realm,
as well as human lives."
As a concept, the Knowledge Campus focuses on leveraging technologies and
products from academic institutions around the world in the areas of
e-learning, front-end portals, library automation and digital asset
management. IIITM-K, as a newly named Sun Regional Center of Excellence, will
have a key leadership role in support of the Knowledge Campus, promoting the
sharing and collaboration in the use of technologies, developing content,
defining standards and building best-of-breed pedagogical practices.
"IIITM-K's footstep in the research of Grid computing would leverage great
potentials in the new era of high power computing and e-learning and Sun Grid
Engine technologies will enable efficient sharing and aggregation of
heterogeneous, geographically distributed and dynamically available resources.
IIITM-K will soon be setting up a Global Data-Intensive Grid test bed and open
it to the Grid collaboration community," said Elizabeth Sherly, dean of
IIITM-K.
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