Sunday, September 16, 2007

The bicycle-powered supercomputer



From engadget:
In an attempt to illustrate the low power requirements of its latest Linux-based supercomputer, a company called SiCortex put together a demonstration showing the massive number-cruncher performing billions of calculations per-second while a team of between eight to ten bicyclists pedaled to keep it going...


To quote a wag: "Now that's what I call a lot of CPU cycles!"

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