"Basing Titan on Tesla GPUs allows Oak Ridge to run phenomenally complex applications at scale, and validates the use of 'accelerated computing' to address our most pressing scientific problems, " said Steve Scott, chief technology officer of the GPU acceleratedcomputing business at Nvidia.
However, the dramatically accelerated drop in computing costs together with the development of powerful software tools has made business software tremendously cheaper and easier to build and implement.
In addition, Hadoop is growing up and evolving in an era in which cloud computing has accelerated the time to market and provided a way to outsource operational expertise.
Lloyd says Cisco should benefit from a confluence of major current trends in computing, including the transition to mobile computing, the accelerated adoption of cloud services and the explosion in Web video.
So, organizations now have to figure out how to more effectively engage their customers immediately given the accelerated maturity cycle that exists in a social computing world.