"cloud computing"
Cloud-computing is when "results" come through large bodies of people's reasoning and have been shown to be more accurate (on the average) than any one person's thinking...
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Interesting question I had not heard before, neither in English nor in Spanish, thanks for asking
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As it seems the accepted translation is :
computación en nube
Please have a look here.
The term used to be "distributed computing/computation" and the concept has been around for about as long as there has been an internet. Since many computer "geeks" are verbally challenged, the replacement of the polysyllabic "distributed" by the monosyllabic "cloud" will, no doubt, contribute to its acceptance (to say nothing of the appeal to the popular imagination of a "cloud" [containing lots of busy computers] cooperating [in their mysterious fashion] to solve some problem).
Early applications involved SETI and finding the prime factors of large numbers (and, perhaps, some of the research into decoding genomes [of various species]).
Most of the credit is due to someone (possibly anonymous) who realized that with the increased popularity of the personal computer, there were huge numbers of computers that were mostly idle/underused and that, if their unused/excess computing power could be productively harnesses, it would exceed the capacity of the most powerful "super-computers". The next (crucial) step lay in recognizing those problems that could be effectively divided up into pieces, so that even the modest personal computer could tackle a "piece" and these pieces could then be combined to provide an answer to a vastly larger problem (well beyond the capacity of an individual personal computer).
