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Wednesday, March 26, 2003
Super-Cheap Supercomputing? - Daniel Lyons, Forbes
Star Bridge Systems employs 16 people and rents office space in a modest beige building near a Celtic memorabilia shop and a health food store on Main Street in tiny Midvale, Utah, which isn't exactly the middle of nowhere, but close enough. The company's founder and chief technologist, Kent Gilson, is a 37-year-old high-school dropout who for years has been derided by computer scientists as, well, a bit of a fringe character. The company's chief executive, Daniel Oswald, joined Star Bridge four months ago after running a foundation that dealt with ancient religious texts and Mormon studies. In other words, IBM this ain't. Nevertheless, this band of outsiders claims to have created a reconfigurable "hypercomputer" that performs like a supercomputer but sits on a desktop, uses very little electricity, needs no special cooling systems and costs as little as $175,000.
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