A Real-Time Grid Enabled Test Bed for Sharing and Searching Documents among Universities

In recent years, the world has witnessed growing technologies in the area of high performance computing. Grid computing has made it possible to aggregate distributed CPU, memory, storage and data to provide the full potential for educational application to share the knowledge that can be attainable on any single system. However, the literature shows that the potential of grid resources for educational purpose is not being fully utilized yet. In this paper, we develop a real-time grid enabled infrastructure test bed that allows students, faculty and researchers to share and gain knowledge in their area of interest by using e-learning, searching and distributed repository services among universities from anywhere anytime. This project uses the Globus toolkit 5.2.5 (GTK) software that provides grid middleware with resource access, discovery and management, data movement, security, and so forth. In addition, the infrastructure test bed also enables users to discover these services and interact with them using the grid portal. This project have a potential impact on future educational institution's research activities.