Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 7th Feb 2008 16:26 UTC, submitted by ericvh
"The Register has unearthed a research paper that shows IBM working on a computing system capable 'of hosting the entire internet as an application'. This mega system relies on a re-tooled version of IBM's Blue Gene supercomputers so loved by the high performance computing crowd. IBM's researchers have proposed tweaking the Blue Gene systems to run today's most popular web applications such as Linux, Apache, MySQL and Ruby on Rails."
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http://weather.ou.edu/~apw/projects/kittyhawk/kittyhawk.pdf
The Reg article exaggerates what Kittyhawk is really about; the actual paper is pretty interesting.