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  • From: Seth Johnson <seth.johnson AT RealMeasures.dyndns.org>
  • To: tom poe <tompoe AT amihost.com>
  • Cc: Open Studios <Open_Studios AT yahoogroups.com>, Community Studios <community_studios AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Community_studios] Supercomputers for the People
  • Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2004 16:20:22 -0400


It will also make the ubiquity of computing more evident.

Seth

tom poe wrote:
>
> Soon, you will be able to burn CDs that contain all the software,the OS,
> everything needed to solve a particular scenario that concerns your
> local community, especially in the sciences. That will also include
> economic impact studies affecting local and regional economies. This is
> huge! And, we thought Open Studios had vision! :)
> Tom
>
> http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/
>
> "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 want to
> change that."
>
> "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 station's
> 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. To us,
> that's a very exciting idea."
>
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