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Wall falling on top-flight information

Amateur researchers soon able to tap supercomputers

Posted: November 30, 2009 at 2:32 a.m.

For decades, the world’s supercomputers have been the tightly guarded property of universities and governments. But what would happen if regular folks could get their hands on one?

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Business, Pages 23 on 11/30/2009

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