[Server-devel] location and muscle of the school server

[Ivan Krstić]

On Feb 22, 2008, at 2:35 AM, Sameer Verma wrote:
> OK. Here's what I was thinking about. If the likes of Moodle, etc.  
> can run on a machine at a data center, and caching can happen on a  
> XO like machine which acts as a gateway to the outside, that would  
> take the load off of repeat download of content files.

Caching static files is certainly doable across XOs. If you're  
thinking of a P2P system, though, the harder problems are cache  
discovery and content authentication.

I had some concrete ideas on how to build this as part of the new  
datastore effort with OLPC, but it's no longer clear I'll be able to  
work on it.

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