The FlashMob supercomputer

Some grad students at the University of San Francisco are trying to put together a flash mob. And not of people spontaneously gathering at a mall to annoy people for fifteen minutes. They're trying to put together a flash mob of over a thousand laptops connected together to create one of the world's top 500 fastest supercomputers. To do this they've written some special software to connect together all the computers, now all they have to do is hope that enough people will show up on Saturday with their laptops in tow to make it happen.