begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 02:03:59PM -0700: > Stewart Stremler wrote: > >Build a Beowulf cluster! > > In case you are not kidding: They have no use for a Beowulf cluster.
Actually, I was being a bit silly, but you bring up a good point... What *do* they need (or want) to do on a computer? Play games? Browse pr0n on the web? Write newsletters? Send and receive email? Form Usenet newsgroups? Write code? Some goals will elicit sympathy, others won't... but most of the ones I can think of that are worthwhile don't require high-powered systems. The SDSU ACM while I was a student really pissed me off. They "needed a server system" for stuff like a web-server or a mailing-list server. I scrounced a PC and put Linux on it... and it turns out what they REALLY wanted was a high-end PC for playing the latest games on. They just couldn't come out and say that and expect anyone to listen. So the TJ Lug has a bunch of old machines, but they don't want any more... they want new, shiny kit. Good for them... go buy it. When you stop accepting old hardware, you've just declared yourself to be self-sustaining. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
