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title: TerraScale SneakerNet
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- work
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- network
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Disks are becoming sequential storage, more like tapes than memory, and [Jim Gray is mailing entire computers around because it's
faster than using the 'net][1].  Found via [Jon Udell][2] who found it via [Tim Bray][3] who presumably discovered it on his own.

   [1]: http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=43
   [2]: http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/07/11.html#a741
   [3]: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/10/StillMovie

I certainly can sympathize with the notion that capacity has grown too fast for access and processing to keep up.  I just let an SQL update run overnight on a "small" sample dataset and it still hasn't finished.
