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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2005-07-28
Looking at things within the context of the internet as it is today and how it has developed...
The more relevant question is how can such a system be employed for the more efficient delivery, dissemination, and creation of porn?
Build it and they will..er, come.