This oddball pulsar was discovered only by harnessing the analysis power of new algorithms on the superfast ATLAS computer cluster.

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Dell, which employs 7, 000 people in the Austin area, is the main company in Austin's second cluster of 250 computer-related companies which together employ 38, 000 people.

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East London's tech scene is led not by tech firms per se but by "digital creative" companies that combine computer technology with music, art and narrative and musicians, artists and writers cluster in cities.

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Three possibilities proposed by Cox: a "peer-to-peer" social network, a cluster of "virtual individual servers" running on a cloud service such as Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud, and "hybrid decentralization, " a mix of the two approaches.

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