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IBM proposed to run the internet from 1 computer. Print E-mail
Written by dekard   
Saturday, 09 February 2008

Yes, the whole internet.

Do you remember the computer that beat Garry Kasparov about 11 years ago? Well, its all grown up now and it thinks that beating the entire system of webhosting is its next trick. Seriously, these IBM folks did the math and believe that their Blue Gene\P system is powerful enough, effecient enough and reliable enough to make it happen. 

I'll admit that getting 4096 processor cores into a single rack is extremely impressive but I'm not entirely sure I want the whole internet in the hands of one company. Read on for the links.

http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1341312.1341326

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=10612


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