Corporations want employees to “think big.” Some want them to “think many,” as well. Servers, that is. We’re talking about thousands of servers linked together and delivering the power of “cluster” or “cloud computing.” That’s what people are calling the computing model that takes vast amounts of computational horsepower, produced by many machines working in parallel, and makes that resource available via the Internet or some other network.
First-Class Cloud: Google Opens Its Computing Power to University Students
September 10, 2008