March 2006
Science as a Web Service
XML can supercharge research.
By Craig Mundie
Although my roots before joining Microsoft were in supercomputing, I believe that "extreme computing" and adding gigaflops (billions of floating-point operations per second) are no longer the optimal solutions to most scientific and technical problems. Today, scientists and engineers can buy or build 10-gigaflop desktop computers for around $5,000, and within the next several years, we will see similar supercomputing power at the chip level.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology