FlashMob I fails
The University of San Francisco's attempt on Saturday to create a supercomputer called FlashMob I by connecting up the laptops of whoever showed up to the campus gymnasiu that morning, failed when only 669 volunteers turned up with PCs in hand. 669 laptops still isn't bad, but it's short of the 1,200 they were hoping for, and the top speed clocked was only about half of what was needed to crack the list of the world's top 500 fastest supercomputers. We don't think it helped that they tried to piggyback on the now beyond passé flash mobs fad, but at least they proved that the concept can work and now anybody with access to enough computers could conceivably create networked supercomputer of their own .
