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| | Supercomputer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | While no one has yet built an ad hoc computer cluster that rivals even yesteryear's supercomputers, the line between desktop, or even laptop, and supercomputer is beginning to blur, and is likely to continue to blur as built-in support for parallelism and distributed processing increases in mainstream desktop operating systems. |
 | | Computers running the Shake software merely need to be in proximity to each other, in networking terms, to automatically discover and use each other's resources. |
 | | For this reason, traditional supercomputers can be replaced, for many applications, by "clusters" of computers of standard design which can be programmed to act as one large computer. |
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