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Is That A Supercomputer In Your Pocket?

http://24hour.startribune.com/24hour/technology/story/986150p-6925945c.html

Short article on plans to build a supercomputing grid which would do for computational power what the WWWeb did for communication. One direction from which "personal supercomputing" is coming is the increasing capability of desktop systems, particularly when clustered together [the "Cray 1 in the basement" effect], but even as such systems approach the power of supercomputers in the past, so does the leading edge bleed forward.

Should this come about, the diffusion of computational power represented ought to have the same range of unexpected effects, both good and bad, that the introduction of the InterNet itself has thus far had.