Sun Donation Spurs Linux Cluster at Purdue

Posted by CowboyNeal on Saturday November 1, 2003 @02:16PM from the old-computers-and-new-opportunities dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Purdue University, with a $3.6 million gift from Sun Microsystems, is giving recycled PCs new life as a computer cluster that makes high-performance computing power available in undergraduate classes. 'Previously, my students could only do what I'd describe as 'proof' animations - small, low-resolution and not presentation quality,' [Professor Richard] Paul said. 'With access to this computing power, the students will be able to ship their software files of instructions to the Linux cluster, and it will come back in three or four hours with modeling, lighting and animation. Students will get to experience the whole thing in terms of scale and presence, and they can do longer animations.' More images of the current Linux cluster and other servers at Purdue are out there."

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Re:who's the weirdo by gladbach · 2003-11-01 15:32 · Score: 0, Flamebait

david bowie's love child.

jusstttt kidding man. feel free to kick whoevers ass it was that put that picture up though. he/she deserves it ;)

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