Let’s democratize everything!

First democratizing philanthropy, and now democratizing supercomputing…all in the news today.

Some class science projects get out of hand. That is certainly the case with Patrick Miller’s graduate course in do-it-yourself supercomputing at the University of San Francisco. On April 3, his students plan to assemble the first “flash mob supercomputer” in the school gym.

“We’re trying to democratize supercomputing,” Mr. Witchel said.