[Beowulf] Flashmobcomputing

[Joachim Worringen]

Donald Becker:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2004, John Hearns wrote:
> > I hesitate a bit to send things seen on Slashdot to the list,
> > but this is probably relevant:
> >
> >
> > http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/
>
> A bit of hype here.
[...]

Exactly. It's a nice idea (although the wrong approach, as Donald elaborated - 
maybe they will find out), but they shouldn't seriously clame to be the first 
with this "revolutionary idea" (sic!).

In addition to Donald's references to earlier "on-the-fly clusters", here's 
another one from Germany (December 1998):
http://www.heise.de/ix/artikel/E/1999/01/010/

I don't know if they actually submitted results to TOP500 - I could not find a 
matching entry for 1999.

 Joachim

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Joachim Worringen - NEC C&C research lab St.Augustin
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