From this poster:
The proliferation of web browsers and the performance gain being achieved by current JavaScript virtual machines raises the question whether Internet browsers can become yet another middleware for distributed computing.
Will we need new HPC benchmarks when 10 million high end PCs link their web browser JavaScript engines together?
What about 20 million high end PCs?
But the ability to ask questions of large data sets is no guarantee that we will formulate good questions to ask.
Pointers to discussions on how to decide what questions to ask?
Or do we ask the old questions and just get the results more quickly?
I first saw this at Nat Torkinton’s Four short links: 4 June 2013.