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	Cloud Computing
rj3sp
5-22-2008 5:55 AM
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cloud computing, distributed, internet, grid computing
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"Cloud computing": a buzzword describing the direction in which information infrastructure seems to be moving means - in contrast to the traditional notion of a supercomputer, with many locally connected processors - a collection of computing resources will residing somewhere on the web connected and used as needed.
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