At the next few workshops we are going to have some fun checking out,
benchmarking, and playing with one of the new Sun Opteron workstations.
http://www.sun.com/desktop/workstation/w1100z/index.xml
that has been graciously loaned to us from Commercial Data Systems
http://www.cdsinc.com/
courtesy of a friend to HOSEF, Joseph O.
It has been very informative to find out just how much CDS is doing in
the Open Source world. One of their clients is Sandia National Labs
http://www.sandia.gov/
to whom CDS sells volumes of IBM's xseries servers running Linux.
Sandia clusters them and does the kind of things that a national lab
does with a cluster.
This is very impressive, and I was previously unaware of the kind of
national presence some of our IT firms had. This is quite a success
story that should be inspirational to us all.
We are grateful that CDS will be providing the server that we will use
to power the thin-client labs at TPOSSCON, PTC, and the eSchool conferences
http://www.sun.com/servers/entry/v20z/
that we will start checking out and testing in January.
Come by and see us and this very cool toy at McKinley from 2:30 to 5:00
tomorrow or in a few Saturdays. Details and directions are on the website
http://www.hosef.org
--scott
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R. Scott Belford
Founder/Director
The Hawaii Open Source Education Foundation
PO Box 392
Kailua, HI 96734
808.689.6518 phone/fax
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