A simulation study for a number of simultaneous users of an institutional knowledge repository system

Use of an emerging technology for the creation of Institutional Repositories to facilitate knowledge sharing and management among the faculty in academic institutions in India is becoming a necessity even with constraints like infrastructure, manpower and funding. The paper describes a pilot institutional knowledge repository implementation at a Business school in India and presents a simulation conducted to ascertain the number of simultaneous users who can search and view/access the contents of the institutional repository with a minimal server configuration.