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Are your creative juices flowing today?

If so, maybe you would like to participate in the naming contest for a new desktop super-computer prototype developed by Uzi Vishkin and his team of researchers at The University of Maryland, College Park.

This technology uses uses a circuit board about the size of a license plate on which 64 parallel processors are mounted. To control those processors, Vishkin and his colleagues in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering have developed the crucial parallel computer organization that allows processors to work together and make programming practical and simple for software developers, at a speed up to 100 times faster than current laptops. (I have no idea what any of this means - but it sounds impressive, doesn't it?)

To learn more about this supercomputer and the researchers who developed it, be sure to read the official press release.

The winner of this super-computer naming contest will earn a cash prize of $500, as well your place in history for the distinction of naming this advance in computing technology. Click here for the full contest rules and restrictions. The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2007, so you have plenty of time to think about this and come up with a winner.

Additional Information about Vishkin's Parallel Computing Research:

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Posted by Margaret Woda, Maryland Real Estate on 08/06/2007 10:04 PM

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I am not techy enough for stuff like that! Great info about your area. I like your posts. I learn something every time I read one.

WOW...I can be a part of history here too. It must be that kind of day... we were talking about history on Jay and Boomers blog today too.

Neat information...I am going to look into it. Thanks for sharing.

Finding a great name for any product is often harder than developing whatever it is! I couldn't think of a name for my book until the very last possible second, and I had a contest among my friends, one of whom thought it up! This sounds like a super great little computer,and I wish I could think up the name! Let me think for a while!