Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future

Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience

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  • I Feel the Need, the Need for Speed
    I Feel the Need, the Need for Speed

    I’m a sucker for big iron. You know, the stuff where you measure power in megawatts, machine room floor space in tens of thousands of square feet, DRAM in terabytes and… Well, you get the idea. It’s just cool, and big iron enables us to solve problems we simply can’t solve any other way. A…