In spring, the prestigious University of Tokyo--Todai--decided to purchase 700 TOSHIBA portables for undergraduate and graduate students majoring in Information Science and Technology. All over campus,
students can take full advantage of wireless communication commencing with Linux-related experiments
and for other individual activities.

Todai chose the "TECRA M1" a top-of-the-line notebook PC offering a 14.1 display, Intel's cutting-edge
Mobile CPU, "PentiumM", Wireless LAN a/b combo, Gigabit Ethernet, and other advanced features, all in a
package that weighs only 2.5kg. This breakthrough in mobile performance was certainly a good reason for
selecting the TECRA M1, but on top of that there's the simple fact of TOSHIBA's reliability, the quality that
hasmade TOSHIBA PCs the "No. 1 Portable in the World".

In fact, the high level performance of the TOSHIBA notebook PCs earned praise from everybody invoked
when Todai recently conducted an experiment in "cluster computing", linking 720 TOSHIBA computers
in a LAN and treating them as one computer for advanced decentralized processing. Although one LAN
connector defect was found and replaced in advance, all 720 computers worked without any failure during
the whole ten days of the trail. News of the experiment also generated a lot of publicity in major Japanese newspapers and magazines.

More about "cluster computing" experiment (Japanese only)