Required Distribution

• While the maximum numbers of users that may use a system has limits, the numbers of microprocessors is still growing exponentially. Each consuming a likewise increasing amount of bandwidth and storage.
• Bandwidth intense systems like MP3 or movie distribution also need caching or other distributed methods.
• The processing requirements for "frontier" science has grown to profound levels, both in processing and data handling. Most of this ends up in high-bandwidth clusters.

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