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digiryde
<p>Of course, there is always the other answer for brute force approach - Grid Computing. Just get a bunch of the PMers to put the application on their computers running different parts of the data. Put all the findings together and voila. Answer! (tounge in cheek).</p>
<p>But, seriously, this would be neat to do with perl as well (CPAN module? - If I have the time. lol). I have already done this in a document creation shop. It was a very powerful tool. Creating millions of documents per day, some of them multiple times. By putting the work into a grid, we were able to cut down the end user seen latency from as much as 30 minutes to no more than a minute (except in rare cases where a person was needed). Since the whole thing was in perl, it made many people rethink their views on perl. The solution blew a java based solution away, and it was done so quickly that the C++ solution (scheduled to replace the Java solution) was never finished.</p>
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Slashdot poked my funny bone...<br>
<a href="http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/21/2039235&tid=185&tid=126">
Visions of the future of grid computing</a>
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<p>-digiryde</p>
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