The Shodor Education Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving science and math education by increasing the role of inquiry based authentic computational science activities.
Shodor has used Yellow Dog Linux as the operting system for a cluster of iBooks used to teach faculty about high performance computing on parallel clusters of workstations.
Shodor is active in faculty training, educational materials development, and student workshops. One of our current projects is the National Computational Science Institute, an NSF funded 3 year Course, Curriculum, and Laboratory Improvement -- National Dissemination project. The iBook cluster grew out of a partnership with NCSI and the Minority Serving Institutions and High Performance Computing program at the National Computational Science Alliance.
"NCSI developed the iBook cluster as a portable training solution for its summer workshops, and the machines serve dual use as both student/faculty training workstations using Mac OS 9 and as a parallel cluster using Yellow Dog Linux." --David Joiner
