Anonymous Reader writes “Flash mob to attempt supercomputing feat:
An attempt to transform a motley collection of laptops into the first ad-hoc supercomputer is about to go ahead, thanks to software written at the University of San Francisco.
On Saturday 3 April, over 1000 laptop owners will converge on the university gym in an attempt to build a “flash mob” supercomputer. The project’s organisers hope that FlashMob will run fast enough to beat supercomputers in the list of the world’s top 500 supercomputers.
Full story on:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99
The people at:
http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/ – are organizing the event – They’re using Knoppix!”
Link: newscientist.com
