Interesting concept: get a bunch of people together
who all have at least
 a 1.3Ghz P-III (or AMD equivalent) laptop with at least 256MB RAM and a
 100baseT network connection and hook them all together to try to get onto
 the list of the world's 500 fastest supercomputers:
 
http://www.flashmobcomputing.org/ 
Supercomputers are dead. Or at least the magic aura of supercomputers.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org