While the article wasn't mentioning IIT, let me say that I wasn't even in the top 100 of the IIT rankers but I graduated with honors from Caltech recently. While I chose to come to the States hoping to have a more diverse experience, I have many friends who went through the IITs who could very well make it to MIT or Caltech and do exceedingly well here. The SATs and the essays that schools here measure applicants by are no true measure of a student's performance, just as the IIT JEEs aren't. Also do keep in mind how much money a school like Caltech spends per undergraduate student and contrast it with the IITians. The fact that so many IIT alums are here and kicking butt at Caltech as PhDs is another facet of the rigorous preparation students get at the IITs. While I moved from one university to another (ending up at Caltech where, I will not say here whether I finally did find that balance I was looking for) I had the opportunity to see the many disadvantages and advantages each system has over the other. I have to say that the education at Caltech/MIT and IITs is comparable. Students from the IITs probably will kick our butts in theoretical stuff, and maybe we can kick theirs at applied... and so forth. Personally I am glad I came, but I will always regret not having the capacity to lead a dual life where I needn't have missed out on the IIT experience as well.
The easiest way as far as I know is to use a firewall like atguard. I have it setup so that the gator app cant connect to the gator servers, and that essentially stops it from popping up. And its kinda cool cos I can still use gator to fill my forms!
The undergrad computing cluster is a kickass computer lab thats run totally by undergrad students at Caltech. Its one of the better run labs and is the place to be for any hacker and coder.
you can check it out at
UGCS
also, the wallpaper that we did for the lab is impressive to say the least:
wall paper
That is absolutely false. IITs do a large amount of research. They have Masters programs. The Wireless Linked Loop technology was pioneered by IIT Madras. Please try to be a bit more informed.
Caltech is not bad at dealing with pranks. We have the honor code which we need to abide by, and it works surprisingly well. The administration has been very supportive about the students when they prank stuff (like when they entered a million times in a McDonald's giveaway and won it). There is a very nice book called "Caltech Legends" that chronicles the amazing past.
Here is a url for india's supercomputing research.. http://www.cdac.org.in/html/param.htm Here is an excerpt: "It currently houses C-DAC's latest PARAM 10000, the most powerful supercomputer in India having a peak computing power of 100 GFlop with an architecture scalable to Teraflop range. C-DAC has advented the OpenFrame Architecture for scalable & flexible High Performance Computing unifying the well known NOW (Network of Workstations), COW (Cluster of Workstations) and MPP (Massively Parallel processor) architectures. This architecture has been realized in C-DAC's new PARAM 10000 series supercomputers, which are scalable from the desktop to teraflop range. The OpenFrame architecture of PARAM 10000 also realizes the server consolidation architecture required for building general-purpose High Performance Computing facilities.
The PARAM 10000 series of machines are powered by state-of-the-art and emergent SUN's UltraSparc series of Servers/Workstations configured as Compute nodes, File Servers, Graphics nodes and Internet Server nodes. These nodes are interconnected through PARAMNet a high bandwidth, low latency network designed in-house and a choice of other high performance networks such as Myrinet, Gigabit, Fast Ethernet and ATM."
Sorry for pasting a long part... but the website goes down quite often, and I wanted everyone to know.
I have a windows98/nt/2000beta/beos machine. Is there some way i can add linux to this? I am a newbie to linux, so if somebody please point me to some instructions to add linux i will be grateful
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While the article wasn't mentioning IIT, let me say that I wasn't even in the top 100 of the IIT rankers but I graduated with honors from Caltech recently. While I chose to come to the States hoping to have a more diverse experience, I have many friends who went through the IITs who could very well make it to MIT or Caltech and do exceedingly well here.
The SATs and the essays that schools here measure applicants by are no true measure of a student's performance, just as the IIT JEEs aren't. Also do keep in mind how much money a school like Caltech spends per undergraduate student and contrast it with the IITians. The fact that so many IIT alums are here and kicking butt at Caltech as PhDs is another facet of the rigorous preparation students get at the IITs.
While I moved from one university to another (ending up at Caltech where, I will not say here whether I finally did find that balance I was looking for) I had the opportunity to see the many disadvantages and advantages each system has over the other. I have to say that the education at Caltech/MIT and IITs is comparable. Students from the IITs probably will kick our butts in theoretical stuff, and maybe we can kick theirs at applied... and so forth. Personally I am glad I came, but I will always regret not having the capacity to lead a dual life where I needn't have missed out on the IIT experience as well.
The easiest way as far as I know is to use a firewall like atguard. I have it setup so that the gator app cant connect to the gator servers, and that essentially stops it from popping up. And its kinda cool cos I can still use gator to fill my forms!
The undergrad computing cluster is a kickass computer lab thats run totally by undergrad students at Caltech. Its one of the better run labs and is the place to be for any hacker and coder. you can check it out at UGCS
also, the wallpaper that we did for the lab is impressive to say the least: wall paper
That is absolutely false. IITs do a large amount of research. They have Masters programs. The Wireless Linked Loop technology was pioneered by IIT Madras. Please try to be a bit more informed.
Caltech is not bad at dealing with pranks. We have the honor code which we need to abide by, and it works surprisingly well. The administration has been very supportive about the students when they prank stuff (like when they entered a million times in a McDonald's giveaway and won it). There is a very nice book called "Caltech Legends" that chronicles the amazing past.
It was supposed to be opensource in that the source was to be released with version 1.0
Here is an excerpt:
"It currently houses C-DAC's latest PARAM 10000, the most powerful supercomputer in India having a peak computing power of 100 GFlop with an architecture scalable to Teraflop range. C-DAC has advented the OpenFrame Architecture for scalable & flexible High Performance Computing unifying the well known NOW (Network of Workstations), COW (Cluster of Workstations) and MPP (Massively Parallel processor) architectures. This architecture has been realized in C-DAC's new PARAM 10000 series supercomputers, which are scalable from the desktop to teraflop range. The OpenFrame architecture of PARAM 10000 also realizes the server consolidation architecture required for building general-purpose High Performance Computing facilities.
The PARAM 10000 series of machines are powered by state-of-the-art and emergent SUN's UltraSparc series of Servers/Workstations configured as Compute nodes, File Servers, Graphics nodes and Internet Server nodes. These nodes are interconnected through PARAMNet a high bandwidth, low latency network designed in-house and a choice of other high performance networks such as Myrinet, Gigabit, Fast Ethernet and ATM."
Sorry for pasting a long part... but the website goes down quite often, and I wanted everyone to know.
Being from Tech (Caltech that is) I just couldn't help but correct the spelling..
I have a windows98/nt/2000beta/beos machine. Is there some way i can add linux to this? I am a newbie to linux, so if somebody please point me to some instructions to add linux i will be grateful