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Breakthrough research: a preview of things to come

Technical Perspective: The Data Center is the Computer

By David A. Patterson
Communications of the ACM, January 2008, Vol. 51 No. 1, Page 105
10.1145/1327452.1327491
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Internet services are already significant forces in searching, retail purchases, music downloads, and auctions. One vision of 21st century IT is that most users will be accessing such services over a descendant of the cell phone rather than running shrink-wrapped software on a descendant of the PC.

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