[ Thanks to Geof
for this link. ]
“When A.J. Rabassa, an 18-year-old Gaithersburg High School
senior, won a T-shirt in a raffle at the Baltimore Washington
Beowulf Users Group last week, he was introduced to the crowd as
‘the kid with a cluster in his basement.’“‘Who doesn’t have a cluster in their basement?’ somebody
asked.“Rabassa built his cluster–a group of computers connected to
amplify their power–using spare parts, with friends. Just for
fun.“But to A.J. Rabassa’s father, Albert Rabassa, and the two dozen
other men and women gathered in the Tysons Corner conference room,
Beowulf, a way of building powerful supercomputers using
open-source software, is not just about fun. It’s about
money…”