Using a grid of 14-kilometer cells, the new system will be able to simulate from one to five years per day of computing time, up from the three months or so that Jaguar was able to churn through in a day.
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His first effort with IBM will be to simulate a single rat neurocortical column.
Hyperoxic swim lanes allow swimmers to train in one location at a variety of altitudes, as the lane can be adjusted to simulate different altitudes.
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The most powerful of these units, at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, is 16 times more powerful than the one Markram is using and will be used to simulate the intricate ways that proteins fold--one of biology's big mysteries.
Minister Mikhailov of the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy has not been reluctant to proclaim what these high-performance computers will be used for, and he said in a speech in January they will be used to simulate nuclear explosions, and that the computers are, in his words, '10 times faster than any previously available in Russia.
The idea is to simulate what used to be fun about shopping for food, back when cooks went from butcher to baker to greengrocer.
We'd say the big problem -- and not a small problem for game developers, to be sure -- is the fact that true 1-to-1 tennis gameplay would be a major undertaking to simulate.
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The contractions can be made to vary in intensity, and to simulate the feel of hand kneading, chopping and rubbing different parts of the body, according to the company's Web site.
Computers might not be the best place to simulate a live philosophy seminar, but they are terrific places to teach people how to use and program computers.
There will also be an outdoor training area to simulate scenarios such as recovering overturned vehicles.
If you are in a dedicated home theater this can be less important, but since many living rooms prevent optimal speaker placement, having the ability to adjust the level of a speaker or add a delay to simulate distance can be critical.
One idea would be to start with a protein in a random configuration, and then to simulate its folding for a short period.
Since these are the models used to predict future climate and influence policy decisions, it is imperative that they can accurately simulate measurements of what is considered to be the driving mechanism behind climate change.
It was a ploy of theirs to pretend not to understand, to frown and simulate confusion because, in any conversation, it was convenient sometimes to appear to be at a loss.
The software will also allow Boeing to simulate the way the plane will be assembled in the factory before a single piece of machinery is purchased.
But the Fusion was the first Ford vehicle developed with advanced 3-D digital software that allowed engineers to instantly make the changes and simulate how the manufacturing process would be affected.
If they wanted to make Superman appear to be flying, they would film Reeve against blue screens and zoom the camera in and out around him to simulate the actor in motion.
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