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        World's first Pocket PC based supercomputer?

        Staff | Date: Oct 14, 2003 | Comments: 1


        A group of programmers at Spb Software House in Russia, including several Microsoft MVPs, say they have created supercomputer out of a cluster of Pocket PCs. Specifically, twelve Pocket PC devices have been joined in a cluster to perform distributed calculations -- the devices share the load of a complex calculation.

        The concept was to compare the performance of several Pocket PC devices linked into a cluster with the performance of a typical Pentium II-class desktop computer. This article describes the project and includes some photos of the Pocket PC cluster they created.

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