Ad-hoc arrays!

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Date: 03/31/04

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    http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994826

    An attempt to transform a motley collection of laptops into the first
    ad-hoc supercomputer is about to go ahead, thanks to software written
    at the University of San Francisco.

    On Saturday 3 April, over 1000 laptop owners will converge on the
    university gym in an attempt to build a "flash mob" supercomputer. The
    project's organisers hope that FlashMob will run fast enough to beat
    supercomputers in the list of the world's top 500 supercomputers.

    "We are attempting to popularise supercomputing," says John Witchel,
    the USF graduate student running the project. "Ordinary individuals,
    people with good ideas will now be empowered to put a flash mob
    together to solve a specific problem."
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    Solving the syntax-compiler saga?

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