Ever have a batch process which takes too long? A daily job that runs 25 hours? An overnight task that takes 12 hours? Something the users want sooner?
My favorite solution is to use wireless and host on a planet with a slower rotation rate but there are problems with that approach starting with lack of rack space

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The traditional solution is Beowulf.
- You say you have no Beowulf cluster for parallel processing? Your desktop support people will not let you build one out of spares?
- You are doing ETL using business languges not supported by parallel processing libraries such as MPICH and MPI?
Read on - there is another way!