March 12, 2004
U. of San Francisco to Be Host to World's First 'Flash-Mob Supercomputer'
Calling all computer owners: Take your machines to the University of San Francisco so they can be hooked together to form a temporary supercomputer.
A group of faculty members and graduate students hope to connect as many as 1,200 ordinary computers in a gymnasium there on April 3, creating one of the world's most powerful computing machines -- if only for a few hours.
Organizers say it will be the first "flash-mob supercomputer," borrowing the term for the fad of using the
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