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Re:No Waiting Room by jrockway on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @02:09PM (#984355)
Distributed computing is a waste when you already have a supercomputer available for your exclusive use.
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Re:No Waiting Room by steveklabnik on Tuesday December 08, 2009 @03:17PM (#984520)
I dunno, Google's strategy of using a lot of off the shelf hardware as opposed to supercomputers seems to be paying off well.
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