On 01/12/2012 10:21 AM, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > On Jan 12, 2012, at 4:10 PM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote: >> This is exactly the population you want to hit. Bring in 100 advanced >> high school (grade 11-12 in US) students. Have them all use cheap >> hardware to do a cluster. Some fraction will think, "this is kind of >> cool, maybe I should major in CS instead of X" Some fraction will >> think, > > Your example here will just take care a big number of students don't > want > to have to do anything with those studies, as there is a few lame nerds > there who toy with equipment that's factor 50k slower (adding to the > factor 500 > the object oriented slowdown of factor 100) than what they have > at home, and it can do nothing useful. > > But in this specific case you'll just scare away students and the > real clever ones > will get total desinterested as you are busy with lame duck speed > type cpu's.
You have made it abundantly clear you aren't interested in enrolling in such a course. Thanks for your comments. On a related note, as I was thinking about 'lame duck' education, I remembered that I took an undergraduate machine learning course in which we designed players for connect-four, which would compete using recently learned techniques against other students in the class. Despite that particular game being a solved one, we all had a blast and got quite competitive trying to beat each other out using the recently acquired skills. I would encourage Jim to do something similar once the basics of cluster administration are done -- perhaps a mini SC Cluster Competition would be a neat application for the Arduinos? Best, ellis _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
