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What about a data center, consisting of millions of raspberry PIs?

Close: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/01/hp_redstone_calxeda_...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJPFSNu_QNs

Are there any scenarios where this would be preferable to virtualization?

If you are an ARM shareholder

The Calxeda solution offers very much better power density for certain compute workloads.

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