A Private Cloud Environment for Teaching Search Engine Construction

Abstract

Kyushu University installed a private cloud system, named “campus cloud system”, using VCL and CloudStack. For a graduate school exercise course on web search engine, the authors prepared a virtual machine on VCL, which had apache web server and GETA indexer preinstalled. This paper introduces an outline of the cloud system, the exercise, and also reports advantages and disadvantages of cloud based education.