From one perspective, they are simply faster data links, but through the looking glass of the distributed computing idea they represent a visible manifestation of the construction of a vast computational fabric that will stretch around the globe.
The world is becoming a vast data fabric.
Where does music reside, in the vast cosmic fabric that surrounds us?
Upstairs there is a series of 32 vast swathes of fabric covered with faded postwar photos of an anonymous family.
Instead of having 18 fabrics just laid out, I said: 'Let's try something.'" The result was Goalen emerging from a vast swath of fabric on to a rooftop, a salesman deployed to hold her flying train while "the admiring members of the Calico Printers Associationn" lined up to look on.
Despite his vast knowledge of fabrics and finishes, Mr. Goldstein says that raw, untreated denim is the way to go these days.
Their bedskirts have been selected by Ms. Fisher from her vast array of fabrics -- no matches here, no such heresy -- coordinating prints with checks, stripes with florals, whatever pleases, and surprises, the eye.
Within each one, there are vast expanses of ordinary fabric, bejeweled by moments of existential clarity.
To operate different processes such as resizing, scouring, bleaching, dyeing and printing of fabric, a vast amount of water is used and waste is generated (Ghaly et al. 2014).
