Think of a compute cluster or grid composed of thousands of commodity computing nodes.

（想一想拥有数千个计算节点的计算集群或网格）。

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This example runs on two computing nodes and the targeted Teradata database has two AMPs.

本例运行于两个计算节点之上，并且目标teradata数据库有两个AMP。

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All computing nodes must be built on x86 64 bit hardware supporting up to 128gb of memory, IA-64 not being supported.

所有的计算节点必须是基于64位x86的硬件，支持最高128g内存，并不支持IA - 64。

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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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