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U of T boots up Canada`s most powerful computer

 
Imagine if you gave every single student, professor, lecturer, administrator and support staff member at Carleton University a new MacBook.
 
Then imagine what would happen if you asked them to hook all the computers up together 
and start furiously doing calculations.
 
That’s nearly 30,000 people working in concert with computers faster than most of us need on a day-to-day basis.
 

Generation Y — a generation of freeloaders?

 

Parents can no longer afford to spoil gen Y ( Graphic: Talbert Johnson )

 

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