When the supercomputer is finished, one future result could be that doctors might take swabs from the inside of the mouths of people feeling unwell and put such samples into a computer.

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Google, by its configuration of hundreds of thousands of commodity servers into a massive, parallel, virtual supercomputer used for search, has worked out, by intent or accident, the enterprise computer platform of the future.

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