Nimble Storage makes a hybrid HDD and SSD storage systems that allows customers to scale to hundreds of terabytes and hundreds of thousands of IOPS in a single storage cluster, according to the company.

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Ultimately, says Dr Dean, the big question is this: now that processing power has become so cheap, how can lots of processors be made to work together efficiently, either within a single machine, within a cluster, or across the Internet?

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Created in 2002 openMosix was a free cluster management system that provided single-system image (SSI) capabilities, e.g. automatic work distribution among nodes.

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The Pentagon says that, in some cases, big single-target bombs can cause even more unintended damage than cluster bombs.

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Moments from the single-track road that winds up the valley, Buchi unearthed a fresh cluster of blossoming wild garlic growing on the moist, fertile banks of the river Cwm Einion.

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The team managed to recreate cell division using the model, although a single pass took almost 10 hours with MATLAB software running on a 128-core Linux cluster.

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Insulin molecules normally cluster together in a "six-pack" configuration, which the body has to convert to the single, or monomer, form.

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