Don't you hate it when you read articles about current events, business, industry, science, or any other subject that you are familiar with and can see that the author has absolutely no idea what he is writing about.

Many universities around the world have been experimenting in cluster/cloud parallel computing for many years. This is definitely not an invented by IBM/Google technology. I once, long ago, wrote a masters degree paper on parallel operating system design and was surprised by how many cluster based parallel systems there were and how large many had become.

The big story is that Google is standardizing cluster based computing and is promoting parallel programming - something that has not been very successful in the past.