I just read a really cool article in August's issue of Scientific American. (Yes, I know, I'm a little behind. I've had other things on my mind :)
The general concept is that Sun Microsystems has packaged 250 servers into a standard shipping container. Add electricity, water (for cooling) and a high speed internet connection and you have an instant data center. "Project Blackbox" has seven terabytes of active memory and can support 10,000 users.
I found it particularly interesting because Sun is claiming that this is the next step towards fully distributed computing - one of the "future trends" Laura and I talked about at the end of our Flash/Flex presentation.
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