The University of Amsterdam has a ‘dualbootzaal’ opened where b lwa tastudenten on the student-pc’s their work of choice can do in Windows XP or Cent OS 5. According to the UvA leads these construction cost savings.
Until recently, there were at the UvA separate halls equipped with Windows-pcs and Linux-based systems. With the advent of the dualbootzaal, in which 58 pc programs are installed, there should be an end. Students can start the pc to choose which operating system they their assignments.
The hall is intended for the computerpractica of the students of the Faculty of natural Sciences, Mathematics and computer science, reports the university. The systems are equipped with a fast ATI Radeon graphics card, allowing students with software to get started, for example, molecular simulations, or real-time 3d animations.
According to project manager Stephan Okhuijsen be on period, all five hundred of the lab pcs in the faculty of a dualboot-construction. In addition, the systems in the new situation, to better remotely manage and turn off. Okhuijsen claims that the main turn off of pc’s money can be saved, because previously the pc’s day and night are on for the install of updates. In addition, the UvA, and, like other educational institutions considerably in the coming years should be cut down, opted for more energy-efficient processors, so that the total power consumption further to fall.
New is the implementation of dual boot systems in universities do not; among other things, the University of Utrecht and University of Groningen offer this functionality already, as well as the Technical Universities of Delft and Eindhoven.
