On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, William Donzelli wrote:
Interesting
concept: get a bunch of people together who all have at least
a 1.3Ghz P-III (or AMD equivalent) laptop with at least 256MB RAM and a
100baseT network connection and hook them all together to try to get onto
the list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers:
http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/
Supercomputers are dead. Or at least the magic aura of supercomputers.
Sure, but massively parallel is still quite vivacious as far as I can
tell.
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