Cloud E-learning and Benchmarking Platform for the Parallel and Distributed Computing Course

We have recently developed and implemented an E-learning and Benchmarking Platform for the Parallel and Distributed Computing Course. Although this platform reduced the students´ problems, we faced an additional problem with the lack of resources expressed in a specific timeframe just before homework deadline. In this paper we propose using a cloud based architecture of an e-Elearning system. It is intended to upgrade the e-Learning and benchmarking platform prototype into a scalable and elastic platform, where the system will send the execution on the virtual machine instance hosted on the cloud node with available resources. Additionally, we propose a strategy for efficient utilisation of cloud resources is proposed.