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Thursday, June 21, 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/21/technology/21NEXT.html June 21, 2001 What's Next: Growing PC's Into Supercomputers, All in a Row By HENRY FOUNTAIN Say you have a couple of Pentium computers in your house, linked by a fast Ethernet connection. Now say your neighbor has a couple of computers, too. Suppose you connect your two computers to those of your neighbor, stringing some cable across the driveway to maintain a fast network connection. Then imagine that you get the whole block involved, and then the whole neighborhood. Pretty soon you have a couple of hundred PC's, all linked together in a fast network. Congratulations. You've built a supercomputer. ...
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