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Hi,
Thanks for the prompt response.
> > However we have very outdated hardware on our campus (just 3-4 P-I's at our
> > disposal) which makes performance evaluation or benchmarking useless.(??)
>
> not at all. My test realservers are 75MHz pentium classics. With 100Mbps
> ethernet, all this means is that I have a very fast network relative to
> my CPU speed. In this respect I have a similar setup to people with 750Mhz
> machines with GigE ethernet cards.
That is great to know!!!
> The real thing is that you need a project that will be
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> o interesting to you
> o of interest to potential employers when they look at your resume
> o (possibly) of interest to users here, so you can point to people have used
> your results
> o oh, and satisfy your course work too.
Well, I must say that's very well said.
Just add to that the fact that your professors need to be impressed
as well ;-).
> Is this a big project - ie do you have 10hr/week for 5 months?
> Can you code? Are you prepared to scrutinize other people's uncommented
> inscrutable code to work out what they hell they were trying to do?
Well, yes we're ready to work for 10hr+/week for 5 months.
But we've got very little experience with coding esp. the good ol'
unix style.
But yes, atleast at this point I feel that we're ready to do *real*
hard work, if that's what's required.....once we have the correct
problem that is :-(.
I am currently looking into the stuff at 'supersparrow'...somehow didn't
come across it before.
Thanks a lot for the help.
abhijeet
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