Hackers Spawn Web Supercomputer on Way to Chess World Record http://ifttt.com/images/no_image_card.png

Ruan Pethiyagoda, John S. Dvorak, and Tim Sze are knee-deep in the Hack Reactor. Based in San Francisco, the Hack Reactor is one of many crash software development courses that seek to teach the computer programming through several weeks of complete immersion. During the 12-week, live-in program, the twenty-something trio have teamed with one of the giant's the tech industry -- the Pivotal Initiative, the big data spin-off company from EMC and VMware -- to set a new world record for what's called the N-Queens Problem, a classic math puzzle that plays out on a chess board. But more importantly, in working to solve this problem, they've developed a new breed of software that lets you pool the processing power of potentially thousands of machines just by pointing them to a single website. They call it Supercomputer.js. It's a new breed of supercomputer built with JavaScript, the standard programming language of the web.



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