] 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.
]
] "We are attempting to popularise supercomputing," says
] John Witchel, the USF graduate student running the
] project. "Ordinary individuals, people with good ideas
] will now be empowered to put a flash mob together to
] solve a specific problem."

[ Cool idea. That's this saturday... be interested to see what happens. The Top500 guy says they can't lose a single node, or the LinPack computation is shot... i guess that's because they left out fault tolerance in order to obtain low overhead for testing? Batteries charged people... someone may trip over your power cord. -k]

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