23 Feb
2004
23 Feb
'04
7:47 a.m.
I agree.... the fabled days of Supercomputers kinda died when the Cray's
became obsolete and lost their awe and allure...
Curt
William Donzelli wrote:
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Curt Vendel & Karl Morris
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The Atari Museum
http://www.atarimuseum.com
The Atari Explorer
http://www.atari-explorer.com
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.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org