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Students Power Supercomputer with Bicycles

Posted by samzenpus on from the those-crazy-college-kids dept.

inkslinger77 writes "A team of ten MIT students powered a supercomputer for twenty minutes by pedaling bicycles. They duly claimed the world record for human-powered computing (HPC). They powered a SiCortex SC648 supercomputer with a Linux cluster of 648 CPUs and almost 1TB of main memory in a single cabinet. The system is low-powered and draws 1,200 watts without needing special power supplies or cooling..."

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  1. Re:Question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Dude, here's a link to an old slashdot article an old slashdot article where they did something like that

  2. YAWN by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This is just a rehash of the washing machine powered by hamsters story [bbc.co.uk]

  3. Re:Question by bytesex · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Can someone please explain why all these dorks are spamming links to minicity on slashdot recently ? What is it ? And why do they need our clicks ? Do they get free 'houses' to build or something in exchange for ad-eyeballs ?

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