• Question: What is cloud technology? Is it related to Quantum Mechanics?

    Asked by sanban to Chris, Dave, David, Jack on 26 Jun 2013.
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      Jack Miller answered on 26 Jun 2013:

      Hi Sanban,

      Cloud computing isn’t really related to quantum mechanics at all — it’s a method of computing where you have a large number of computers spread around the world, connected by the internet (collectively called ‘the cloud’), and you give those computers a task. Some, but not all, tasks can be made to go much quicker by getting a large number of computers to solve bits of them in parallel, so cloud computing is often very good at solving problems that would take one computer a long time to do.

      Hope that helps!

      — Jack

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