three months after leaving the phd, the company left cewit too. the new office was the third floor of 335 madison avenue, across the street from the terminal the accelerator is named for, and the team doubled in it.

335 Madison Avenue seen from across East 42nd Street: a bronze-and-blue glass tower stepping back as it rises, with pedestrians and green construction hoarding along the sidewalk at its base.
335 madison avenue, from across 42nd street. photo by jim henderson, cc by 3.0.

the product had moved as well. it started as spare office machines linked into a grid; by that summer the pitch was the job scheduler module, which used spectral graph theory to decide how work was distributed across a cluster, and it was being sold against public clouds, private clouds and bare metal.

we also did work for new york city's department of environmental protection.

grand central tech, as it looked then · scala computing, as it looked that summer