{"id":1381,"date":"2006-10-11T06:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T01:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1381"},"modified":"2006-10-11T06:26:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-11T01:26:00","slug":"laptops-and-clusters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1381","title":{"rendered":"Laptops and clusters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/10\/11\/world\/africa\/11laptop.html?hp&#038;ex=1160625600&#038;en=bc6ae2d6dab0ee0c&#038;ei=5094&#038;partner=homepage\">every Libyan schoolchild will have a laptop<\/a> in pretty short order.  I&#8217;ve babbled about the $100 laptop project before &#8230; and now it&#8217;s real.  For further details, go check out John Negroponte&#8217;s talk at <a href=\"http:\/\/ted.com\">TED<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p><em>For its $250 million investment, Libya will receive 1.2 million computers, one server per school, a team of technical advisers to help set up the system, satellite internet service and other infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>The computers come with a wireless connection, a built-in video camera, an eight-hour battery and a hand crank for recharging batteries. They will initially be priced below $150, and the price is expected to decline when they are manufactured in large numbers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I wonder, do we have any school districts in the US willing to spend $150 per student on a laptop?  What about if we could buy all textbooks electronically, and distribute them on the laptops?<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re about to get leapfrogged by Libya.  <\/p>\n<p>In other news, I&#8217;m in Boston every day this week, building an 80 node cluster.  Fun, but a lot of commuting.  In better, other news, my mother and sister are coming to town on Friday!  Yay!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, every Libyan schoolchild will have a laptop in pretty short order. I&#8217;ve babbled about the $100 laptop project before &#8230; and now it&#8217;s real. For further details, go check out John Negroponte&#8217;s talk at TED. <\/p>\n<p>For its $250 million investment, Libya will receive 1.2 million computers, one server per school, a team of <span style=\"color:#777\"> . . . &rarr; Read More: <a href=\"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/?p=1381\">Laptops and clusters<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chris.dwan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}