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Originally posted by westothemax
As a side note, there is a version of Knoppix called ClusterKnoppix that is meant to do stuff like this, so I'm assuming the people behind the Flash Mob project have come up with a better way of doing it.
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I'd think they take a version of ClusterKnoppix and adjust it to their needs... It would be pretty easy to re-master the knoppix cd for this.
It is interesting to see the results, but given that enough PC's take part, a supercomputer "equivalent" could be constructed.
The project that would be calculated by such a supermachine would need to be distributable enough in order to match the performance of a true supercomputer though (like SETI, Folding, and the like)
This is mainly of interest for organisations that have many PC's (for their employees/students for example) that stand idle most of the time (or at night). At idle times they can be used for large computing projects. Pixar and Dreamworks use this method IIRC.