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Feb 26, 2004

"What we call little things are merely the causes of great things; they are the beginning, the embryo, and it is the point of departure which, generally speaking, decides the whole future of an existence. One single black speck may be the beginning of a gangrene, of a storm, of a revolution." --Henri Frederic Amiel

The Embryo

Some class science projects get out of hand. That is certainly the case with a do-it-yourself supercomputing graduate course at the University of San Francisco. John Witchel's idea of building a volunteer super computer on the fly is now turning into reality -- 1200 volunteers will bring their computers to a Gym and plug it into a high-speed network! "We're trying to democratize supercomputing," Witchel said.