April 4, 2004
Today, it should be the world's first "flash" computer to come out. On the homepage of the San Francisco University, there is no report, it is anxious. This Flash Mob SuperComputer should be equivalent to the AD HOC network and distributed calculation. Perhaps it is not an ad hoc at all, everything is static. The failure of the single node will cause the failure of the entire system in the press release. I don't know if I am mischief or is really so fragile. If this is the case, this thing has to be a pure speculation. If it is dynamic allocation, it is not an epoch. However, they borrowed the "flash" of the times, it was a head full, and it was very attracted to attract new human attention, especially the so-called Geek. In addition, their public relations are also doing well, and major media have reported this. Search for a circle that only finds the boot disc that adds the calculated calculation, but unfortunately there is no algorithm to introduce or source code. They use Knoppix to guide and run their operating system on the light. Regarding the network, I remember the earliest report that the use of wireless network interconnects, but from the photo of the preparation site, it is ordinary twisted pair. Those cables are gathered together into the hill.
April 5, 2004
"The world's first flash computer" action is finally dust, and the result is far less likely to be exciting. Yesterday, the San Francisco University Stadium welcomed more than 700 computers to participate in the flash. 669 successfully submitted into the network, and the peak calculation speed reached 180 GFLOPS (Million floating point calculation per second). The 669 sets of 75% have failed during the calculation process, and only the calculation capabilities of 256 computers are used when the peak speed is reached. The final completed test results are 77 GFLOPs that are achieved by 150 machines. This figure is far from the original 500 goal of the world. At present, the world's first machine is Japan's Earth-Simulator, computing capacity reaches 35,860 GFLOPS, while 500th will reach 403.4 GFLOPS, peak 614.4 GFLOPS. Even so, this event is still fresh and interesting. We saw that the organizer added a number to his name: I, perhaps II, III, or N version of the version really will bring us huge surprises.
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