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Mr Wladawsky-Berger's hospital would similarly crunch patient-data using the internet, or grid, as if it were a single, giant virtual microprocessor, but for a more earth-bound purpose.
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The PS3--also known as "The Cell" for featuring a high speed microprocessor that is said to run rings around Intel's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Pentium 4 chip--also has the upcoming Ninetendo Revolution to contend with.
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This program is then fed into a second piece of software called a compiler, which translates it into a sequence of machine instructions for a specific kind of microprocessor, such as Intel's x86 family, which can then run the original program.
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