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[ 2007-7-29 19:55:00 | By: zjx818 ] |
flash mob (FLASH mawb) n. A large group of people who gather in a usually predetermined location, perform some brief action, and then quickly disperse. —v., —adj. —flash mobber n. —flash mobbing pp.
Example Citation: The Internet has spawned a gaggle of new verbs — Googling, surfing and flaming are words most of us are used to hearing in everyday conversation. Now you can add "flash mobbing" to that list. In recent weeks, New Yorkers have been using forwarded e-mails to coordinate "flash mobs," or not-so-random crowds that appear and dissipate within a matter of minutes. Is it performance art? The cutting edge of a new social movement? Or just an easy way to flummox carpet salesmen? To protect the planned serendipity of each event, participants aren't told exactly what the mob is supposed to do until just before the event happens. For the most recent New York happening on July 2, participants passed around an e-mail telling them to assemble at the food court in Grand Central Station, where organizers (identifiable by the copies of the New York Review of Books they were holding) then gave mobbers printed instructions regarding what to do next. The result: Shortly after 7 p.m., about 200 people suddenly assembled on the mezzanine level of the Grand Hyatt Hotel next to Grand Central Station, applauded loudly for 15 seconds, then left. —Maureen Ryan, "All in a flash: Meet, mob and move on," Chicago Tribune, July 11, 2003
美国“快闪族”冲刺世界超级计算机500强未果 数百名美国“快闪族”成员利用普通电脑拼装出的计算机,未能获得堪与世界运算功能最强大的500台超级计算机媲美的运算能力。但组织者4日在网站上发布声明说,首次超级计算“快闪”行动是一次成功的尝试。 据悉,共有约660名“快闪族”参与了3日在旧金山大学一座体育馆举行的这次行动,其中包括程序员、大学生、研究人员和其他自发赶来参加的电脑爱好者。组织者发布的材料说,在“快闪”行动期间,体育馆内共放置了700多台普通电脑,其中669台联入网络。行动中运算速度峰值是每秒1800亿次浮点运算,由256台电脑联网实现;实际最快运算速度为每秒770亿次,通过150台电脑联网获得。 这些结果与行动组织者的初衷有一定差距。他们的原定目标,是利用上千台笔记本电脑组装出足以跻身全球前500位的超级计算机。在去年11月公布的全球超级计算机500强最新排行榜上,列第500位的超级计算机的运算速度峰值是每秒6144亿次,实际运算速度达到每秒4034亿次。 尽管如此,组织者们仍认为本次行动相当成功,因为它证明“快闪”超级计算这一概念具有可行性。参与组织这次行动的旧金山大学研究生威切尔在接受媒体采访时说,他们的行动结果证明,与耗资数千万美元的常规超级计算机相比,“快闪”超级计算机是有竞争力的。威切尔等人倡导的“快闪”超级计算是指借助特定软件,将大量普通个人电脑通过高速局域网相联,获得可与超级计算机相当的运算能力。威切尔等认为,“快闪”超级计算机的优点在于,它可以为解决特定问题而临时组建,完成任务后就马上拆分,无需固定的基础设施,成本也比较低廉。他们还认为,“快闪”方式有助于推动超级计算机的普及,让普通阶层也能拥有超级计算能力。“快闪”超级计算的灵感部分来源于正在世界部分城市流行的“快闪”潮流。所谓“快闪”是指通过因特网联络大量互不相识的人,在指定时间到达约定地点集合,完成稀奇古怪的任务后又迅速散去。自去年夏季美国纽约出现首次“快闪”事件后,这股风潮很快蔓延到其他一些国家和地区。 |
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