But as the software technology matures, it will increasingly be able to lash together thousands of low-cost computing nodes and create a flexible, high-performance corporate data center.

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Do you scale-up to a high performance computing system or scale-out by just adding nodes to a distributed computing network?

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Finally, as your computing needs expand, the cloud needs to add more network nodes to handle those needs.

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