Flash mob computing

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Mon Feb 23 16:03:22 2004

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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