5Cloud Computing
“You know, while the other guy’s sleeping? I’m working.”
—Will Smith
Cloud Computing might be the next great frontier of technological progress. The idea of using a computer to send work for another computer somewhere else to do might seem pointless, but the reality is there can be a great many benefits to doing so. Just as a director of photography might delegate responsibilities to a lighting crew on a shoot, so might a laptop or tablet be used to call in the computing power of a room of supercomputers on the other side of the globe.
That’s all well and good, but you might be wondering what practical uses it has. The short answer is it can be used for any traditional computing process that would take a long time on your personal ...
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