RE: [scifinoir2] Community college professor, students aim to build world's most powerful laptop
Sounds like a place I'd like to burn my spare time. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:50:35 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Community college professor, students aim to build world's most powerful laptop He has a lot of pull in the county. The school is really small but they have a couple of really cool projects there such as a solar grid that was built over the parking lot, and nice computer lab. The auto shop is nice too. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: I believe I read some of his work a few years back. When this rolls out of his lab, I'll rob a bank or three to buy the product. ;-D Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. Sign up now. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ _ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469229/direct/01/
Re: [scifinoir2] Community college professor, students aim to build world's most powerful laptop
The school has potential but what bothers me is the lack of evening classes that are required subjects. That is a big problem in California. It is as if no one was thinking about folks that work.(which is most of the people that are there) On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: Sounds like a place I'd like to burn my spare time. If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik -- To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:50:35 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Community college professor, students aim to build world's most powerful laptop He has a lot of pull in the county. The school is really small but they have a couple of really cool projects there such as a solar grid that was built over the parking lot, and nice computer lab. The auto shop is nice too. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: I believe I read some of his work a few years back. When this rolls out of his lab, I'll rob a bank or three to buy the product. ;-D -- Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. Sign up now. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469229/direct/01/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ -- Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. Sign up now. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469229/direct/01/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
RE: [scifinoir2] Community college professor, students aim to build world's most powerful laptop
Might that have something to do with the budget crisis? _ Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/
Re: [scifinoir2] Community college professor, students aim to build world's most powerful laptop
It was like that before the budget crisis. They are just stupid when it comes to scheduling important classes. I suspect that they do it on purpose to slow down the number of graduates from community colleges. It can take you longer to graduate from a community college than a 4 year college in most cases. If you go to a cc you are forced to take one or two classes per semester unless you are working part time. Which is why I ended up going to a regular college. For example, when I was attending there. The actual A+ class was just one semester long, but there were 2 pre-requisite classes that were required before taking that class, and two others afterward that were not part of the major that were needed for a certificate from the school. On top of that the certificate wasn't transferable to any other school. It also varies from county to county. Even with all of this it was still better than San Francisco's school system. It is just idiotic how they have it set up. I get angry just talking about it. I spent close to two years attending classes in San Francisco only to find out that the school was not accredited to teach those classes, and NONE of the classes were transferable. On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: Might that have something to do with the budget crisis? -- Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469226/direct/01/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
RE: [scifinoir2] Community college professor, students aim to build world's most powerful laptop
EXTREME stupidity. Man... If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in bloody hell hired the director? -- Charles L Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com From: hellomahog...@gmail.com Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 15:52:24 -0800 Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Community college professor, students aim to build world's most powerful laptop It was like that before the budget crisis. They are just stupid when it comes to scheduling important classes. I suspect that they do it on purpose to slow down the number of graduates from community colleges. It can take you longer to graduate from a community college than a 4 year college in most cases. If you go to a cc you are forced to take one or two classes per semester unless you are working part time. Which is why I ended up going to a regular college. For example, when I was attending there. The actual A+ class was just one semester long, but there were 2 pre-requisite classes that were required before taking that class, and two others afterward that were not part of the major that were needed for a certificate from the school. On top of that the certificate wasn't transferable to any other school. It also varies from county to county. Even with all of this it was still better than San Francisco's school system. It is just idiotic how they have it set up. I get angry just talking about it. I spent close to two years attending classes in San Francisco only to find out that the school was not accredited to teach those classes, and NONE of the classes were transferable. On Sat, Feb 13, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.com wrote: Might that have something to do with the budget crisis? Hotmail: Trusted email with Microsoft’s powerful SPAM protection. Sign up now. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/ _ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469229/direct/01/
[scifinoir2] Community college professor, students aim to build world's most powerful laptop
(I took an A+ class with this guy. He knows his stuff and would classify as an old school super geek.) Community college professor, students aim to build world's most powerful laptop By Matt Krupnick Contra Costa Timesmkrupn...@bayareanewsgroup.com?subject=contracostatimes.com:%20Community%20college%20professor,%20students%20aim%20to%20build%20world%27s%20most%20powerful%20laptop Posted: 02/12/2010 02:18:59 PM PST Updated: 02/12/2010 03:05:15 PM PST SAN PABLO — In this troubled corner of the East Bay, far from Carnegie Mellon University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, community college students are trying to put together the most powerful laptop computer the world has seen. Led by Contra Costa College professor Tom Murphy, the handful of students are meeting outside of class, trying to piece together four quad-core processors inside an aluminum attache case. Murphy is calling the computer LittleAl, and he hopes it will land the college a Guinness World Record in a category not yet invented. If we hit it, we will be the first ones to hit it forever, said Murphy, an energetic, Santa Claus look-alike who spent years in the high-tech world before turning to teaching nine years ago. That's pretty cool. If LittleAl succeeds, it will have at least 96 gigabytes of memory and possibly a mind-blowing 128 gigabytes, making the standard laptop look like an abacus in comparison. Murphy plans to finish the computer in time for a conference next month. Of course, LittleAl will not be pretty, or comfortable. The silver Zero Halliburton case looks like the sort of thing that would be handcuffed to someone's wrist — the one preferred by spies worldwide, Murphy said — and its bulk likely would prevent the computer from fitting on many laps. In this instance, appearance hardly matters to Murphy, although he does delight in his eclectic collection of leather, metal and vinyl cases for future projects. He has vowed, for example, to build a supercomputer in a blue cosmetics pouch with Adrian's Colleges of Beauty printed on the side. But Murphy's primary goal is to train his students in computer skills rarely learned outside the classrooms and labs of vaunted research universities. His Contra Costa College students have taken note of the opportunity. This sort of thing you expect to go to a (University of California campus) and be able to do, said freshman Matthew Choa, of Pinole. Someone like (Murphy) could be at a top school. But here he is, helping us. To tell you the truth, I wasn't expecting something this grand, added freshman Hasani Groce, who grew up in Oakland. California's community colleges enroll nearly 3 million students, the vast majority of the state's undergraduates, and grant certificates in dozens of professions. But, rightly or wrongly, the campuses generally are not seen as players in fields such as high-powered computing. And yet it was one of Murphy's students who beat out professionals in a programming contest at a developers' conference last year. The instructor has reveled in his mission to prepare students for careers in the Silicon Valley and animation studios such as Pixar. They bring to this endeavor everything a four-year student does, Murphy said. The challenge is giving them the confidence. That's why I'm never, ever going to leave this place. One key to the LittleAl project has been the generosity of Murphy's industry contacts. Semiconductor giant Intel, for example, has donated many of the laptop's components. Tom is very innovative, and he thinks outside the box, said Zander Sprague, an Intel liaison with colleges and universities who has worked closely with Murphy and his students. He's constantly pushing the boundaries of what's possible. Although Murphy said the Guinness record is a realistic goal, he notes that students will learn important lessons about multicore computers regardless of the results. Part of the reason this works for us is that we're not trying to make a dime on it, he said. We may hit a brick wall here, but we're going to learn as much as we can from that wall. -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
RE: [scifinoir2] Community college professor, students aim to build world's most powerful laptop
I believe I read some of his work a few years back. When this rolls out of his lab, I'll rob a bank or three to buy the product. ;-D _ Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469229/direct/01/
Re: [scifinoir2] Community college professor, students aim to build world's most powerful laptop
He has a lot of pull in the county. The school is really small but they have a couple of really cool projects there such as a solar grid that was built over the parking lot, and nice computer lab. The auto shop is nice too. On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Martin Baxter truthseeker...@hotmail.comwrote: I believe I read some of his work a few years back. When this rolls out of his lab, I'll rob a bank or three to buy the product. ;-D -- Your E-mail and More On-the-Go. Get Windows Live Hotmail Free. Sign up now. http://clk.atdmt.com/GBL/go/201469229/direct/01/ -- Celebrating 10 years of bringing diversity to perversity! Mahogany at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahogany_pleasures_of_darkness/
