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Infoworld has put together a list of 12 crackpot tech ideas that could transform the enterprise – some pretty revolutionary, some not so much.

Among the intriguing ideas are:
#3: Autonomic computing, where the cluster has a brain stem of its own, allowing for self-regulation of system processes to managed maintenance costs and optimize datacenter utilization. These days people are saying that autonomic computing lost out to virtualization, but I think it’s cyclical and will come back up again in some format;

#4: Direct delivery of DC power to servers/clusters – given that the several cycles of converting from AC to DC and back can result in ~50% power loss, IBM is looking to provide servers that run directly on 480 VDC… which is fine as long as the AC-HighDC transformer is close to the servers, i.e. within 50-100 feet I’d guess;

and of course given this crowd, #10: Quantum computing. Actually I could very well have ended up working on building a trapped-atom quantum computer if we’d stayed on the East Coast – I’d have gone for an MIT postdoc on this instead of going west. Neat stuff, even if large-scale implementation is a good ways off.

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