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Tuesday, April 13, 2004  

The Makings of a Do-It-Yourself Supercomputer by Linda Leung
http://www.nwfusion.com/news/2004/0412widernetsupercomputer.html
http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/

Making a supercomputer these days is a lot easier than you might think. I even helped build one myself in just one day earlier this month. The call to create the processing beast came from a group of University of San Francisco graduate students whose goal was to entice hundreds of computer enthusiasts like myself to unite their laptop and desktop systems into a megacomputer powerful enough to crack the list of the Top 500 fastest supercomputers on Earth. Topping that list is Japan's 40-teraflop Earth Simulator.

posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:20 AM
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