educationaLinux 2003 Tuesday 13:00 session

Tuesday 13:00 – The Hidden Free Supercomputer in your School

The Hidden Free Supercomputer in your School discusses the use of LTSP/Mosix in a school situation, even if your school's computers do not normally run Linux.

Mosix links many computers together so they act like one giant machine. LTSP/Mosix can enable you to harness this hidden horsepower in your school. Modern desktop machines run at 2GHz or faster, so if your school has 200 new desktops it can use, you effectively have a 400GHz supercomputer on tap.

This paper discusses:

How to set up OpenMosix on an existing Linux LAN
How to integrate OpenMosix aith LTSP
How you can use OpenMosix even in a Windows-centric environment
What you can do with your newfound resource
Applications to run in house on your supercomputer

About Leon Brooks

Leon is a computer consultant from Perth, Western Australia, who specialises in being weird, operating by the rule of thumb "the mainstream is almost certainly wrong". He believes that merely supplementing existing educational processes and techniques with computers is a sure road to mediocrity, that the computer as a tool for examining and modelling things is as unprecedented as the advents of motor vehicles and radio. Open Source Software is an essential key to adapting computers to the needs of individuals, and to giving those individuals power over the computer.

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