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great article on current grid computing, featuring MPI, MapReduce, Hadoop, and promising a new UNIXy thing from tbray called Sigrid (ha!). Mind-boggling quote from Jim Gray: ‘Memory is the new disk. Disk is the new tape.’
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spontaneously converts the off-patent anhydrous form of the drug into the patented hemihydrate form, which then successively converts more and more of the anhydrous form, Ice-9-style. Never mind “viral” licenses, this takes the biscuit! (via substitute)