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It's because of that flattening Moore's Law curve

After the short parenthesis on the Java / GPL stuff - looks like Sun will clarify everything in a matter of days - I'm switching back to my original topic.

As I told you a few days ago, one of the purposes of the blueMarine cluster of projects is to research in new technologies and understand some possible future scenarios of computing. One of these is parallel-computing-made-easier. I'm getting convinced that in the next few years parallel computing (that is the capability of performing intense computation tasks in a shorter time by distributing the load on multiple CPUs) will become more pervasive than today - not because I've dreamt about it after eating too much onions, but because I'm seeing some techy people talking more and more about it.

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