WHEN RICHARD MOUNT needed more processing power for Stanford University’s particle accelerator, he didn’t have room in his four-story building for a bunch of new computers. So he put them in the parking lot.

Sun Microsystems Inc. will deliver a 20-foot 6.1-meter shipping container packed with 252 servers next week to crunch data for physicists, betting a wave of customers follow suit as Internet companies look for quicker, cheaper ways to grow.

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