No matter how many computers you happen to have, the absolute minimum you need in order to get your work done is at least 50% greater.

I can confirm that this law continues to scale quite effectively over several orders of magnitude. I cannot (publicly) confirm precisely how many.

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Published in: on March 4, 2004 at 11:37  Comments (5)  
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  1. On March 4, 2004 at 11:47 djdigit said:

    *nod*
    I can offer independent verification of this law.

  2. On March 4, 2004 at 11:54 covenantscave said:

    If you ever leave and are reduced to a normal person’s allotment of ordinary PCs…
    At least your new job is keeping you too busy to contemplate building some sort of particle accelerator in your living room…
    ^_^

  3. On March 4, 2004 at 12:56 woody77 said:

    A friend of mine is building the worlds largest computer right now… ::sigh:: Although it’s more of the parallel processing variety than what I think you’d need…

  4. On March 4, 2004 at 13:47 zunger said:

    No, parallel is quite nice. Very, very parallel. 🙂

  5. On March 4, 2004 at 14:33 woody77 said:

    We’ll have to talk, sometime. 🙂 Although I’m not sure if google would want to afford it….


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