Hardware is driven by "commodity technology" e.g. use of chips from PC and workstation market
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Detailed hardware architecture irrelevant if one uses software standards such as:
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Fortran, C++, Java Programming Languages
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MPI for Message passing in parallel codes
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Web and CORBA for distributed information and objects
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If you need to a broad class of approaches to earthquake prediction, one cannot beat commercial efforts
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e.g. there isn't a useful GEM special purpose computer
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You can spend more money and get more powerful machines
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