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Some history

Some history (cont'd)

Vacuum tubes

Vacuum tubes (cont'd)

Vacuum tubes (cont'd)

Transistors

Transistors (cont'd)

Magnetic cores

Chips

Chips (cont'd)

Chips (cont'd)

Chips (cont'd)

Chips (cont'd)

Chips (cont'd)

Computers

Computers (cont'd)

Computers (cont'd)

Computers (cont'd)

Computers (cont'd)

Future trends

Future trends (cont'd)

Future trends (cont'd)

Future trends (cont'd)

Future trends (cont'd)

Future trends (cont'd)

Future trends (cont'd)

Communication trends

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The Grid (cont'd)

The Grid (cont'd)

The Grid (cont'd)

The Grid

analogous to electric power grid
unified access to geographically distributed computing resources
selection based on availability, cost, performance, etc.

Could use XML, RDF, etc. to ‘advertise’ availability and features.

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