Calif. Mob Tries to Create Supercomputer

[GhostDawg]

Did anybody participate or hear about this? I bet is was fun!

Hundreds of technophiles Saturday wired their computers together in an attempt to generate computing power on a par with the world's strongest supercomputers.

The experiment organized by researchers at the University of San Francisco was designed to determine whether a gymnasium full of off-the-shelf laptops and desktops networked together can muster enough power to process the most complex research problems.

http://tinyurl.com/2pk3v

[trickster]

[quote author=Saptech link=board=14;threadid=8969;start=#msg80959 date=1081048944]
Did anybody participate or hear about this? I bet is was fun!

Hundreds of technophiles Saturday wired their computers together in an attempt to generate computing power on a par with the world's strongest supercomputers.

The experiment organized by researchers at the University of San Francisco was designed to determine whether a gymnasium full of off-the-shelf laptops and desktops networked together can muster enough power to process the most complex research problems.

http://tinyurl.com/2pk3v
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I read that title and for a minute, I thought of the mafia trying to create a supercomputer.

[GhostDawg]

Yeah, thats what I thought at first. It made me read the article...lol