Hello
I am a student doing an independent study project investigating the possibility of teaching large scale computing on a small scale budget. Th My thought is to use available Open Source ( Hadoop) and Creative Commons and other materials as the text. A student could then do significant computing on Amazon for the cost of what they would usually pay for a textbook. I have convinced an agency of the state of California that paying for computer time for a CS student is "like buying a textbook or calculator for a math student", so "so far so good." I am asking if anyone has some largish data sets, preferably on Amazon, we could use for class projects to contact me off list. Thanks, Bruce Williams
