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Millennium project

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A parallel computing project at the University of California at Berkeley. Using nearly a thousand computers donated by Intel, its focus is on developing a multi-level "system of systems" that uses local clusters of SMP machines called a "CLUMP." The CLUMPs use technology from the earlier NOW (Network of Workstations) project at Berkeley. See NOW project and Beowulf.


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It's a status he embraces throughout the book's nearly 400 pages--from his retelling of saving the Bolivian economy from runaway inflation to that of convincing Poland's Solidarity leaders to run for political office, or of his leadership of the UN's Millennium Project.
Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the United Nations Millennium Project, is working with Quest for Global Healing to cull actions from the MDGs that individuals can undertake to help the international community achieve those goals by 2015.
A UN Millennium Project Task Force has identified 5 guiding principles and 10 actions needed to intensify efforts to meet the targets (7,8).
 
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