http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,1121367,00.asp
I can remember, when I first beheld the IBM S360 some 35 years ago, yearning to have one of my own -- little did I dream. Now, of course, reasonably powerful computers are available for everyone, but just as you can never be too rich or too thin, your coumputer can never be too powerful. The popular image of the "big machine" in film and fiction was just that -- a machine housed in massive caverns sized on a titanic scale [for example, Colossus in The Forbin Project.].
And there have been, no doubt, many impressive and gigantic supercomputers, ranging from Crays to ASCII White. Yet again, as has been true so many times in IT's past, at least some of the palm goes to the lowly and humble, as it turns out that it is quite cheap to arrange clusters of Linux machines which are not just resepctable, but in the upper echelons of the supercomputer ranks. There is no reason why such developments cannot continue.
All this suggests to the extent that we allow ourselves to be computationally challenged by raw power requirements, we may well be reading off the wrong disk drive.
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