The Flash-Mob Supercomputer Here's an idea. Get a bunch of people together in a room in San Francisco and create one of the top 500 supercomputers on the planet for a day. That's exactly what the Flash Mob Supercomputer project is setting out to do. Mad, you say? Not at all. The project is entirely feasible. Everybody who shows up will have to bring a PC with at least a 1.3 GHz Pentium III/AMD equivalent or better CPU, 256 MB of RAM, ethernet, and a CD-ROM drive. When they get there, they'll be handed a CD-ROM with a popular Linux distribution called Knoppix. They insert the disk, boot up the PC, and run Knoppix that way - the original hard disk is never touched. The goal is to network together all computers that show up and run the Linpack benchmark to prove that they are actually working as one supercomputer with power in the top 500. Beyond the "gee whiz" factor, the project is also one student's thesis and an experiment that may eventually lead to practical applications. Sign up at the Web site. http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/
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