# First Supercomputer flashmob

- Author: Joichi Ito
- Date: 2004-03-16T05:19:13Z


Looks like the date for the first supercomputer flashmob has been decided. Someone moblog this please!The University of San Francisco is sponsoring the first FlashMob Supercomputer on

 - Saturday, April 3, from 8 am to 6 pm,

in the

 - Koret Center of the University of San Francisco.

We're planning to network 1200-1400 laptops with Myrinet and Foundry Switches.  We'll be running High-Performance Linpack, and we're hoping to achieve 600 GFLOPS, which is faster than some of the Top500 fastest supercomputers.

We need volunteers to

 - Bring their laptops:  Pentium III or IV or AMD, minimum requirements 1.3 GHz with 256 MBytes of RAM
 - Be table captains:  help people set up laptops before running the benchmark
 - Speak on subjects related to high-performance computing

For further information, please visit our website

http://flashmobcomputing.org

Peter Pacheco
Department of Computer Science
University of San Franciscovia Markoff





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