Abstract

This paper describes and summarizes the current state of the development for making the Virtual Control Laboratory (VCLab) a GRID application within the ELeGI project. It introduces shortly into GRID techniques and shows how this GRIDifying process is performed to offer virtual scientific experiments (VSE) on the GRID. The architecture and some technical details of the prototype implementation are presented. The next steps in the development are outlined concerning the collaboration aspects of conducting VSEs. The authoring of VSEs is sketched by some proposals of authoring tools. A vision into the future emphasizes the VCLab as a component in a learning environment with a new learning paradigm.

Highlights

  • The Virtual Control Laboratory (VCLab) [1] has been originally developed as a tool to support students in control system design using professional simulations of automation processes

  • Implemented as a GRID service it will be later integrated into the Intelligent Web Teacher (IWT), which is a learning system currently under reimplementation within the ELeGI project

  • This paper presents the first results from the VCLab reimplementation within the ELeGI project

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INTRODUCTION

The Virtual Control Laboratory (VCLab) [1] has been originally developed as a tool to support students in control system design using professional simulations of automation processes. In the focus are works for adding new GRID-based collaborative features to VSEs. The fourth and fifth chapter covers proposals for future implementations of learning modes and for developing GRID-based tools supporting the authoring of the content to be used by VCLab. 1.2. OGSI.NET [6] (Open Grid Service Infrastructure) and its successor WSRF.NET [7] (Web Service Resource Framework) are two implementations of the OGSA. Both were developed at the Virginia University and both, as theirs names indicate, are based on the Microsoft .NET Framework. They deliver software base classes and porttypes to implement user defined GRID services. GrASP is currently considered to be converted from OGSI.NET to WSRF.NET, because only the second option is under further development

VCLAB AS A GRID APPLICATION
THE COLLABORATION ASPECT OF VCLAB
LEARNING MODES
THE AUTHORING TOOLS
CONCLUSIONS
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