Matt; One of the things that you can do to get things started is to collect used computers from the school, school district, local business or from the parents of other students. Once you have 10-12 units you can surprise your teachers and provide a platform for learning Linux and other open source S/W, while providing an additional platform for learning programming. May even get you a scholarship.
I have gone back into selling used turnkey clusters, in part because of the need for organizations to test or get familiar to this technology without a large capital expense. From 1977-1990 I sold used mini and mainframe computers because it could stretch a budget, while getting the necessary computer power needed. In many respects this still holds true. Good luck on your endeavours. Bill Harman, P - (801) 572-9252 F - (801) 571-4927 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------ High Performance Computing Solutions ------ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of matt jones Sent: Friday, January 27, 2006 8:20 AM To: beowulf@beowulf.org Subject: [Beowulf] Re: clusters in high schools. if there was an opportunity for clusters in high school, or secondary schools (which i'm in) it would be great, people like myself are actually being held back by the schools because we are far more advanced than all the others in our class's. not much can be done about this but in the UK because we sit IT and that hasn't really got much to do with actual hardware, software or anything that could include a beowulf. in our school myself and one other in the year below even know what anything other than windows is... i find this astonishing as most web servers do not use windows, and we spend most of our IT lessons on the net. so yes clustering and the opportunities of clustering unused computers within schools and colleges do exist and there is a huge gap in the UK education for starting people towards any sort of clustering knowledge, but if it could be done those 1 to 10 of us might get the help we need to actually build and maintain a cluster. which i suppose would benefit the other students as they could run models through it. matt jones, 15, YR. 11 student at a normal comprehensive school. ps* can anyone advise me to a guide for starting a Beowulf, 'cos i haven't found one yet. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
