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Supercomputing: Raw Power vs. Massive Storage
securitas writes "The NY Times reports that a pair of Microsoft researchers are challenging the federal policy on funding supercomputers. Gordon Bell and Jim Gray argue that the money would be better spent on massive storage instead of ultra-fast computers because they believe today's supercomputing centers will be tomorrow's superdata centers. They advocate building cheap Linux-based Beowulf clusters (PCs in parallel) instead of supercomputers." NYTimes free reg blah blah.
Exactly where in that article did they endorse beowulf clusters?
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Why don't the editors use non-reg links? Like, say, Google caches? Is there some (perhaps nefarious) ownership chain between NYT and Slashdot? Copyright issues? Deep linking issues? What gives?
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Because *BSD is dead?