We can simulate years of research data in the span of months once we are out in the marketplace.

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She has created a software program that uses data from magnetic resonance imaging scans to simulate how fast a patient's brain tumor is likely to spread.

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Similar compromises are required for the data-hungry layering of images needed to simulate things like smoke and translucent glass.

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Volvo's U.S. manager of product safety and compliance, Adam Kopstein, says his company's engineers began doing tests to simulate small-overlap crashes in the 1980s after analyzing data collected from car accidents in Sweden and other countries.

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The tests simulate both normal circumstances as well as preparing the team for the unexpected, with tests of how data will be crunched in the event of a data centre fire, virus infection or other crises.

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