Watson, harnesses a massively parallel network of 2, 000 to 3, 000 Power 7 computing cores in six refrigerator-size containers.

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Erlang, developed by telecommunications company Ericsson for massively parallel computing in a phone network, then later released as an open source language, both influenced Scala and is enjoying some rebirth in the world of global data centers.

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