I ran across this on CNN. The link:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/industr...idg/index.html

It's a long article to post here so I'm just posting the good part.
In part:

Bell, Torvalds usher next wave of supercomputing
From...
[IDG.net]

May 21, 2002 Posted: 8:28 a.m. EDT (1228 GMT)

By Ashlee Vance,
IDG News Service/San Francisco Bureau

(IDG) -- Some of the IT world's top luminaries gathered here at Los Alamos National Laboratory Friday to witness the unveiling of a compact supercomputer that proponents say could provide the model for high-performance computing systems in the years ahead.

Gordon Bell, one of the original brains behind the minicomputer, and Linus Torvalds, creator of the Linux operating system, joined a collection of scientists for the unveiling of the supercomputer, a Beowolf cluster called Green Destiny that was built from hundreds of so-called blade servers -- compact servers stripped down to their most basic components.