Teraflops from cyberspace.
Part of a special section on technological innovation. Distributed computing has the potential to develop into a real business venture, with the possibility of a genuine revenue stream being created. The technology works by breaking down large computations into fragments that are distributed among...
| Publicado en: | Economist Vol. 357; pp. 9 - 10 |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
12/9/2000
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