[CLUE-Talk] Beowulf

[Richard Knechtel]

Yes!  I love to hear about it myself. This student sounds like he is on
his way to being a good IT person. Sounds like you have some smart kids!
It is great to see there are some good teachers out there that let the
kids "run with it". I sure wish my daughters teachers did!

Rich

Kevin Cullis wrote:
> 
> Roger,
> 
> Good on ya!!  Maybe he could give a talk at CLUE regarding what he did,
> it could give him some additional experience (in front of a crowd) and
> prepare him to help explain what he did.  Just a thought.  I know for
> myself, I'd like to shake his hand for a job well done.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> Roger Frank wrote:
> >
> > Every semester I select one student as a technology intern.
> > I guess he stayed late after school because I just got email
> > from a school account saying:
> >
> > ----8<-------8<------- snip -------8<-------8<---
> >
> > Hey Mr. Frank!
> >
> > I got it to work!  So we now have a three node beowulf cluster
> > sitting in Room 215 at school!  Exciting.  I didn't use the ideal
> > method to get it working, but it still does right now.  I just setup
> > a few more things on the x2 node and used that for the master
> > for the povray, like you were suggesting earlier.  Then it sent
> > the processes out the way it was supposed to, and after I did
> > that, I tried it again from x1 and it spawned the process to
> > itself and both of the other machines just fine.  Next we
> > can start creating a huge cluster with the lab!  That will be cool.
> > See ya tomorrow.
> >
> > ----8<-------8<------- snip -------8<-------8<---
> >
> > It's only three nodes - until tomorrow when we'll try to make
> > it thirty-three.  Working with this student and watching the
> > learning and the excitement grow and getting this mail, well,
> > next time someone asks me if going into teaching was a
> > good idea I won't have to think back far for the answer.
> >
> > Roger Frank
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