"Cloud computing" would not provide young firms with access to huge amounts of computer power if big companies had not created giant servers.
Deciphering the message without the keys takes massive amounts of computer power.
Mr Holzle said the service was aimed at those organisations that needed to call on huge amounts of computer power.
In our opinion, the ability to economically use large amounts of computer power over the cloud changes the perception of what is feasible and what is necessary to perform when selecting and assessing models.
This method, however, often resulted in large file sizes requiring a lot of computer power.
The technique, known as Shareboost, is distinguished by the fact that as the number of objects it needs to recognize grows, the system minimizes the amount of additional computer power required.
This took a huge amount of computer processing power, as the simulated dinosaur robot took the information programmed into its virtual muscles and worked out how to use them to walk.
"With audiences of 100 million-plus today, which all of these guys have, it pays for a tremendous amount of computing power," said Prof. Eric A. Brewer, a computer scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, and the founder of Inktomi, an early search engine company.
This is a very complex problem for a computer and needs a huge amount of computing power.
For instance, when they measured the prices of computers, they saw that $1,000 bought a certain amount of computing power in 1998 and twice as much as 1999.
