Server farms are commonly used for cluster computing. Many modern supercomputers comprise giant server farms of high-speed processors connected by either Gigabit Ethernet or custom interconnects such as Infiniband or Myrinet.
Google's services are run on several server farms, each consisting of thousands of low-cost commodity computers running stripped-down versions of Linux.
(Answer: Not really, because all companies have it in spades.) Carr's new book, The Big Switch, targets the emerging 'World Wide Computer' -- dummy PCs tied to massive server farms way up in the data cloud.
and governments often employ a large number of small computers to accomplish tasks that were previously done by an expensive, large mainframe computer. Collections of the smaller computers in one location is referred to as a server farm.
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