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One of the co-founder’s cousins, a seven-year-old, actually inspired the product by asking for a computer that was as easy to put together as Lego.

Six-year-old James Cox and his father, University of Southampton professor Simon Cox, designed and built a 64-core supercomputer out of little more than LEGO bricks and a bundle of lower-powered ...