Sam Hunting on Fri, 9 Nov 2001 03:50:10 +0100


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[PLUG] PLUG] proposal for meeting topic: PPS


[Joe Coyle]
> there was a guy from UPenn there ( I didn't get his contact info) 
> looking for advice on setting up the Philadelphia Public Schools with
> Linux. My proposal is this:  Why not make the Philly Public Schools 
> the subject of a meeting? 

My thought for a really interesting project would be to have a club of
ten or twelve kids in Center City build a Beowulf cluster from cast off
PCs in the school department with help from PLUG. Lots of learning,
huge potential, and puts a lot of computing power in the right hands.
In my dream picture, the project would use the unused cafeteria in the
Free Public Library main building -- great publicity for all parties,
good security so machines are safe, the library gets a slice of
mother-huge processing power, and the kids learn that libraries are
great places.

Just a thought .... (No, I've never built a cluster.)

Sam Hunting
eTopicality, Inc.

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