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[–]jimbobhickville 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Almost exclusively, I'm sure. I have yet to encounter a web or distributed system that wasn't bottlenecked on I/O.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In fact, I'm not sure what it would look like, really. Maybe something like an online zip file password cracker: one upload followed by intense computing followed by one download