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Over 700 computers came into the gym and we were able to hook up 669 to the network. Our best Linpack result was a peak rate of 180 Gflops using 256 computers, however a node failed 75 through the computation. The biggest challenge was identifying flakey computers and determining the best configuration for running the benchmark. 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 are invited to join FlashMob You are invited to join us in Koret Gym at USF in San Francisco for an all-day event. Bring as many computers as you can and well give you everything you need to jack-in and add your computers firepower to FlashMob I, and hopefully make history. The more people that come the bigger a supercomputer we can create. Everyone who participates will receive a t-shirt, a FlashMob CD-ROM with all the software, and an access pass to the days events . Plus youll receive a certificate of participation and a badge to put on your computer in recognition of having created one of the fastest supercomputers on earth. In addition, there will be prizes, contests, special guests, and lots of fun throughout the day. Join the Post FlashMob LAN Party After the FlashMob Supercomputer completes, we are hosting the largest LAN party in San Francisco ever! This is your one opportunity to put 1,000 of your closet friends on a 10-Gigabit LAN Thats right, we said Ten G-G-G-gigabit local area network and settle the score. The LAN Party is free for everyone who participates in the FlashMob, but its closed to those that dont, so bring your LAN box in the morning for a great seat. 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. 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. Anyone with a 13 GHZ Pentium III Celeron/AMD equivalent or better with at least 256MB of RAM. Kids, students, adults, professionals, academics, web folk, IT departments, computer clubs, LAN Party types. Your computer must be at least 13 GHZ Pentium III/AMD equivalent or better with at least 256MB of RAM, a 100 Base-T network connection and a CD-ROM. The CD-ROM contains everything you need including an operating system, networking and configuration software and the benchmarking software. Because the software boots from the CD-ROM and runs entirely from memory, your hard drive will never be touched so it doesnt matter what your OS is or what software you have installed.
When you arrive, youll be assigned a Hub Captain who will help you get your computers up and working as part of FlashMob I. Youll be running Linpack - the benchmarking software used to rank the Top 500 Fastest Supercomputers. So tell your friends, grab computers from home, from work, from school, wherever. If youre interested in becoming a Hub Captain or sponsoring a hub, click here . If you think youll have more than 10 computers click here and let us know. While grid computing, like the SETIHome project, has been around for some time, and big iron supercomputing dates back to WW II, the idea of creating an ad-hoc supercomputer on-the-fly thats tightly coupled on a fast LAN using ordinary PCs is a revolutionary idea. Today, supercomputing is controlled largely by governmental organizations, academic research institutions, animation studios, and recently biotech companies. This means that the problems that get solved by supercomputers are narrow in scope and tightly controlled. We think that a group of folks should be able to get together and study whatever they want, and they should be able to use a supercomputer to help them. So if a high school science class wanted to study the ozone hole using a supercomputer model, they could create a FlashMob supercomputer in a few hours and start running their model today. If a group of neighbors were worried about how a local gas stations underground gas tank might leak into the drinking water if the tank ever cracked, they could use Flash Mob Computing to model the scenario. In short, we hope Flash Mob Computing will democratize supercomputing. That is to say, it will make supercomputing accessible to everyone. It will be at least one students thesis The results of FlashMob I will be submitted for inclusion in the Top 500 Supercomputers We expect numerous academic journal articles to be published based on the results Sounds Great!
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