Will Physics Laws Fluster What "Super' Clusters Can Muster?(INTERNET & TECHNOLOGY)

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Byline: KEN SPENCER BROWN

You can never have too much money, too many friends or too many nodes in your supercomputer cluster, right?

That last part, which was a given in the era of commodity hardware, might not ring so true anymore.

Clustered supercomputers, armies of smaller machines acting as one giant system, usually get faster as engineers add more computers to the cluster.

But more isn't...

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