The Other Kind of “Cycles”
December 13, 2007 – 10:57 amA team of 10 Massachusetts Institute of Technology cyclists highlighted the range of energy activities at MIT in a unique way Tuesday by using bicycles to power a supercomputer conducting research on nuclear fusion. The computer run was the largest human-powered computation in history. (from Supercomputing Online)
One Response to “The Other Kind of “Cycles””
I cannot escape seeing an uncanny resemblance to the cranked-on OLPC! Just the opposite pole of the specter of the human-computer symbiosis…
By Serguei on Dec 13, 2007