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Origin: unknown
Category: Desktop
Desktop environment: CLI
Architecture: x86
Based on: Morphix
Wikipedia:
Media: Live CD
The last version | Released: RC4 | March 31, 2004
FlashMob Linux – a live Linux distribution, based by Morphix, and inspired by a Knoppix.
It runs in a live mode, without installation on a hard drive, and has no graphical desktop environment installed at all. It uses the commad live interface to let users work on it.
Flash mob computing or flash mob computer is a temporary ad hoc computer cluster running specific software to coordinate the individual computers into one single supercomputer.
FlashMob I was a 2004 project that created an ad-hoc supercomputer using a modified Linux kernel, designed to turn a collection of networked PCs into a high-performance machine. Based on Morphix Linux, the bootable CD-ROM system demonstrated how dispersed, temporary computing power could be harnessed for specialized tasks.
The first flash mob computer was created on April 3, 2004 at the University of San Francisco using software written at USF called FlashMob.
This (RC4) is a scaled down version of the actual ISO we will use for the real FlashMob I. However, the software installed on this CD will allow anyone to run their own FlashMob supercomputer and run the HPL (LINPACK) benchmark. You can find out the Gigaflop rating of your own computers. There is a new command that pushes for a top GigaFlop rating instead of passively seeing if it will just run. There is better ATHLON support. Still missing is the ability to run in mixed Intel/AMD environments (that works, but is not installed on this disk). Please try out the CD on your own computers, especially the computers you plan to bring on FlashMob day (April 3). You DO NOT NEED to install software on to your hard disk. You can use just one computer or as many as you have. All you need to do is burn as many copies of the CD as you have computers, then boot one as a SERVER, and the rest as COMPUTE nodes.
The live system is x86 compatible.
