ZDNet: There's more to Dell's cluster success than meets the eye
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Posted by Kenneth Farmer, Monday September 09 2002 @ 07:06AM EDT
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At first glance, a story about Dell supplying the computers to power a 2,008-system cluster at the State University of New York in Buffalo appears quite remarkable. When a company maker better known for its business model than its R&D scores a major victory in the clustering arena, that's big news- but not for the reasons you might think.
In the big picture, this is not a story about how Dell has suddenly and miraculously turned into a clustering player. Given Dell's model, the transformation was inevitable. If the company didn't push itself there, it would have been sucked into the space anyway.
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