Collaborative Research: Emulation Infrastructure and Material for OS/Network Classes

计算机科学(31)Emulab分布式操作系统模型(由犹他大学开发)是为操作系统课程提供完全灵活的、共享的、动手的实验室的一种方式。该项目正在开发一个名为Edulab的“教育盒中的Emulab”设施，与犹他大学合作，定制他们最近在教育中使用的轻量级Emulab系统(Emulab-Lite)。这使得这些廉价的轻量级系统，以及新开发的课程材料，可以轻易地免费提供给世界各地的学院和大学。该项目正在为Emulab软件增加新的功能(包括一个网络界面)，使教职员工更容易创建和评分作业，从而缩短教职员工和学生的陡峭学习曲线，并使学生更容易调试他们的项目。

Computer Science (31)The Emulab distributed operating system model (developed at the University of Utah) is a way to offer a completely flexible, shared, hands-on laboratory to the operating systems course. This project is developing an "educational Emulab in a box" facility (called Edulab) by working with the University of Utah to tailor their recent work on lightweight Emulab systems (Emulab-lite) for use in education. This is making these inexpensive lightweight systems, along with newly-developed course materials, readily and freely available to colleges and universities worldwide. The project is adding new features to the Emulab software (including a Web interface) that are making it easier for faculty to create and grade assignments, reducing the steep learning curve for both faculty and students and making it easier for students to debug their projects.