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WorldCom May Go Grid. "WorldCom, whose accounting-fraud disclosures last year led to a $107 billion bankruptcy-protection filing...is talking to Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Sun Microsystems, and researchers at the open-source grid computing Globus Project about applying the technology to help customers build hosted data centers capable of deploying more computers when demand is high -- say, around Christmas for a retailer -- then taking those machines offline when usage ebbs, lowering costs." [Source: InformationWeek.com]
Posted Wednesday, March 26, 2003 10:29:38 PM 
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