Supercomputing On A Cell Phone

You know that big, bad, quad core, CrossFire / SLI rig you got? Throw it away, a smart phone is all you need! Well, that might be a bit of an exaggeration but the folks at MIT say a supercomputer phone is possible:

New software that runs on a smart phone can approximate in seconds computations that would take a supercomputer hours. The software works for problems whose form is know but whose particulars aren't; slider bars allow users to set the values for which they want the problems solved.

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