In a typical PCR machine a large aluminum block is used to heat and cool the DNA samples.

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An example of an application that does not work well in a simple cloud environment is a shared database, such as the typical Oracle database application, where the information is one big block of data that needs to be manipulated all the time by many computing processes and where access to the shared data needs to be synchronized and managed.

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Opening his laptop, he pulled up an illustration by Monocle magazine of the perfect city block and pointed out how similar it was to a typical Taipei one, with storefronts facing the street and residences and parks tucked inside.

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