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A Cluster Of Pocket PCs

Posted by timothy on from the can-this-really-be-the-first dept.

Don Stratton writes "This is the coolest thing I have seen anyone do with a Pocket PC... ever! Well-known Pocket PC developers SPB Software House, located in Russia, have come up with a very interesting spin on computing clusters. The short version is they connected 12 Pocket PCs together in the first known 'supercomputer cluster' of its type and had it calculate the old '3n + 1' problem. It was just done for fun, and not intended to seriously compete with desktop computers, but it does point out some interesting possiblilities for the future of handhelds with wireless connectivity working in ad-hoc computing clusters."

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  1. Happy, aren't you? by gooru · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that a beowulf cluster in your pants, or are you happy to see me?

  2. omg by blake8087 · · Score: 5, Funny

    in soviet russia... i mean... imagine a beowulf... um... no comment

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  3. Wow! by inteller · · Score: 4, Funny

    now I can open up my contacts with blazing speed!
    ...if I just didn't need a backpack to carry it all around with me.
    Chalk up another nerdgasm that got posted to /.

  4. Break out the mini racks by antimith · · Score: 5, Funny

    IBM is introducing their lates server line, the IBM ButterKnife series, featuring a fully hot swappable cluster of up to 200 MS Pocket PC's. On good days you'll get the output of a screaming 386!

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  5. Too obvious? by Burpmaster · · Score: 3, Funny

    In Soviet Russia, Pocket PCs imagine a beowulf cluster of YOU!

  6. they must read /. by PhiberOptix · · Score: 5, Funny

    building a cluster of pocket pcs is fun and all, but I bet that the most fun part of the project was posting about it here on /. just to see the flood of beowulf cluster in soviet russia jokes.

  7. Hmm.. by DarkBlackFox · · Score: 3, Funny

    Imagine the number of Beowulf comments this story draws.

  8. I'd like to get my hands out of my pants, but ... by burgburgburg · · Score: 4, Funny
    I'm manipulating my pocket cluster.

    Wait, put down the phone. Stop dialing 911. Wait, stop!