<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Waaaaaay too much whining here for me...<br><br>SO, lemme start throwing positive energy into the mix...<br><br>What can "a million monkeys" do to create a positive buzz for OLPC?<br><br>A toss away: on Thursday, I was doing some volunteer work at the Computer History Museum on documenting of stuff formerly stored at Moffett. There were a couple of generic beige PCs with<br>a tag "Beowulf Cluster?" (they'd been gutted, just cases w/ nothing inside)<br><br>HMMM, what would it take to put together "N" XO's into a cluster? What could it do? <br>I've always admired the "zero cost supercomputer" that the folks at ORNL built outa surplused PCs.<br>How 'bout a tiny supercomputer-cluster working on the mesh? Maybe a tiny protein folding problem?<br>WAAAY more interesting than reveling at
CHAT while facing each other... (Though I still LOVE<br>the acoustic measurer...)<br><br>Note: this probably could work off of QEMU or sugar-jbuild on a laptop, no whining needed.<br><br>WHAT ELSE can the tens of monkeys do?<br><br>jay<br><br><br></div></div></body></html>