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Cringely Wants A Supercomputer in Every Garage

Posted by timothy on from the i'd-call-mine-claire dept.

Nate LaCourse writes: "Real good one from Cringely this month. It's on building his own supercomputer, but with some twists." You'll probably also want to check out the KLAT2 homepage to learn more about their Flat Neighborhood Network. And since KLAT2 has been around for nearly a year (check out the poster on this page!), perhaps a 3rd generation is in the works?

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  1. Now what... by jsse · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Now what am I going to do with the extra computational power that I created?

    Running Super-SETI at home, claiming to be the greatest contributor when they really find ET?

    Running Super-Quake with all the transparant cheat-code on without a slight jitter?

    Rendering MSN frontpage in less than a second, with Mozilla?

    Any better idea?

  2. The usual question by ndogg · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I want to see a Beo--...err, wait, never mind...

    --
    // file: mice.h
    #include "frickin_lasers.h"