Back home, they hooked up their cheap computers and hard drives to each other to form a sort of homemade parallel processing system.

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Mr Joy says that his new design, which turns a single chip into a parallel-processing system, can handle huge amounts of video and audio data at speeds that would overwhelm the usual Intel chip.

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Red Storm is a high-bandwidth, massively parallel processing supercomputing package, priced much lower than its flagship Cray X1 system, which it sells mostly to the government and military.

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