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1 Scalability 2 =========== 3 4 Scalability usually means upscalability: the property of a system to handle 5 a growing amount of work by adding resources to the system. 6 7 In permacomputing, downscalability may be more important than upscalability. 8 Systems in general are supposed to remain small, so they don't need to be 9 designed with upscalability in mind. However, there may often be a need to 10 implement an idea or an algorithm in a very restricted environments, which 11 creates preference for downscalable ideas and algorithms.