An article in The New York Times "Hey, Gang, Let’s Make Our Own Supercomputer" brought a lot of attention to the effort.
Despite these efforts, the project was unable to achieve its original goal of running a cluster momentarily fast enough to enter the (November 2003) Top 500 list of supercomputers.
For comparison, the fastest super computer at the time, Earth Simulator, provided 35,860 Gflops.
John Witchel (Stuyvesant High School '86) was a USF graduate student in computer science during 2004.
After talking to Greg about the challenges of networking a stadium of wireless computers and listening to Pat lecture on what it takes to break the Top 500, John asked, "Couldn't we just invite people off the street and get enough power to break the Top 500?"