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[edlug] Flashmob 1
University of San Francisco hooked up hundreds of participant computers and laptops using specialised Linux bootable cd's in an attempt to create a small supercomputer. They didn't make it into the top 500 at the Flashmob 1 demo, but it's an interesting story nonetheless;
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3600173.stm
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/04/04/1340230
The ISO
http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/download/index
If this utilised client resources distributed all over the Internet, like SETI@home, you'd have something like SkyNet!
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