IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad has supposedly overtaken Bill Gates as the richest man in the world.
Kamprad is worth $53 billion, compared to Gates with $47 billion.
Attempt to build ‘Flash Mob’ supercomputer from volunteered PCs falls short
An attempt to build a supercomputer comparable in processing power to the fastest currently on the Top500 list from donated PCs fell short of the expected results.
The network of 700 PCs donated in the ‘Flash Mob’ experiment at the University of San Francisco was capable of 180 billion ops/sec – far from the the 35 trillion ops/sec capable by the Japanese Earth Simulator – currently the fastest computer in the world.
Tech News April Fools
This blog (/dev/null) has a list of some news items that were going around yesterday that were April Fools – the JavaRanch one was pretty funny – there’s a link to the image that was on the page (saying Bill Gates had hacked the site 🙂
Sun settles with Microsoft on Antitrust issues
Sun has settled with Microsoft and has agreed to receive a payment of $1.95 billion from Microsoft to drop all antitrust and patent issues.