[OLPC Networking] Idea for research project?

[Seth Woodworth]

There is also the issue of getting media to the local school servers.  It
would be faster for a laptop to get materials from a nearby school server
than over the internet.  Perhaps a distributed cache could be created.
Perhaps some sort of bit torrent like client could be created.  The idea has
been discussed for Colingo content.

Seth

On Dec 1, 2007 6:54 PM, timothy perfitt <tperfitt at twocanoes.com> wrote:

> Greetings all.
>
> I am graduate student in California State University, Long Beach in
> the Master's program in Computer Science.  I have an interest in
> parallel and grid computing, and have looking at ideas for my master's
> thesis.  I am excited about the OLPC project as it blends my interest
> in technology, education, and development.  I was a math and science
> teacher for the Peace Corps volunteer in the South Pacific in the
> early 90's, and am currently working for Apple.   I contacted Mel Chua
> from off the wiki as the university contact, and he suggested I post
> to this list.
>
> I have been reading the wiki and keeping up to date on the project,
> and have ordered 4 laptops (2 for myself, 2 donated) so that I can get
> some dev machines.  I know there are some immediate software projects
> that the XO needs help with, but I am looking for areas that are
> longer term and need some investigation.  With the mesh networking on
> the XO laptops, it seems that there is a lot of potential to be able
> to share adhoc computing resources from nearby nodes.   Ideas such as
> shared web caches, replicating curriculum resources, or even the
> propagation of local news (current events, market prices, etc) through
> the mesh seem like interesting possibilities.  If you know of an area
> that would benefit from further research and implementation that would
> have a good chance to acceptance into the XO project?, let me know.
>
> Any ideas/advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> tim
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