Re: What can I do with six new publicly available computers?
On onsdag 21 september 2005, 15:59, Mitja Podreka wrote:
> At the moment we are only offering web access. We would like to
> create a place where people will come and do some creative stuff with
> computers. What exactly depends on people itself.
Sounds great!
For one thing, you allready have trivial access to programming tools,
compilers and stuff, for those who wants to get engaged in that.
For people who want to get engaged in writing, there is of course
Wikipedia.
I think one of the more interesting things you could do are in the field
of geographic information systems. You have, for example the
OpenStreetMap project: http://www.openstreetmap.org/
Setting up a center to coordinate map production in your area would not
only benefit your area, but would give you valuable experience the rest
of the world would be interested in.
There are many good mountaineers in Slovenia, and I know someone who is
gathering up data for a complete global digital elevation model, and
I'm sure Slovenian mountaineers could help in validating these data.
As for clustering, a real cluster is probably not something you would
pursue right now, but I would still recommend looking at things like
Condor: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/ I have just barely used it
myself, many years ago, and I can't tell the state of it now, but it is
under active development.
Cheers,
Kjetil
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