"Chris Maher" is a reporter for Seven News in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. He studied at Charles Sturt University in Bathurst, New South Wales/Bathurst. During his studies he was a volunteer broadcaster with on-campus community radio station 2MCE-FM.

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It's not just 1,500 servers, but a collection of 1,500 servers that act like a single computer system.

We needed to achieve a 600 percent increase in file system performance.

You can imagine the kind of problems you can solve with this, like a tsunami warning device that would scrutinize huge amounts of information from the ocean and then analyze that quite quickly, or for homeland security applications, where you need to scan images of people and match those images against large databases.