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February 22, 2004
FlashMob meets the Grid
Posted by Clay Shirky
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FlashMob designed to assemble, ad hoc, a Top 500 supercomputer:
*Welcome to FlashMobComputing.org*
This is the home of the first Flash Mob Computing supercomputer and the official site for all things Flash Mob Computing. On April 3, 2004 University of San Francisco will host the first Flash Mob Computing computer, FlashMob I, with the purpose of creating one of the Top 500 Supercomputers on the planet. You Can Help!
You are invited to join us in Koret Gym at USF in San Francisco from 10pm - 4pm. [...]
*What is Flash Mob Computing and FlashMob I?*
A Flash Mob supercomputer is hundreds or even thousands of computers connected together via a LAN working together as a single supercomputer. A Flash Mob computer, unlike an ordinary cluster, is temporary and organized on-the-fly for the purpose of working on a single problem. Flash Mob I is the first of it's kind. By bringing hundreds of people like you together in one room, we will have enough computing power to become one of the fastest supercomputers on the planet.
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1. David Fono on February 26, 2004 3:11 PM writes...
Can someone explain to me how this is a "flash mob", rather than simply, you know, a "meeting"?
I was under the impression that the defining characteristics of a flash mob were ephemerality and spontaneity. It seems to me that the term is getting thrown around without any due consideration for what it actually means.
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