And computational power is being unlocked like never before by new massively parallel computing paradigms like Hadoop.
But, with the advancement in computational power, scientists and engineers are able to model the sonic boom itself.
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Zerocoin also takes about 50 times more computational power than Bitcoin, which could cause delays and glitches in the system.
This advance in computational power has enabled scientists and engineers to tackle problems once considered in the realm of science fiction.
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Josh Marinacci: The needs of users, as well as the computational power of our computers, has grown tremendously over the past few decades.
During this period, computational power has advanced more than a millionfold.
While it is possible to refine audio quality through software, Audience specializes in chips because it says hardware allows more computational power for its complex sound processing.
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"The order-of-magnitude increase in computational power available with Titan will allow us to investigate even more realistic models with better accuracy" noted ORNL researcher and WL-LSMS developer Markus Eisenbach.
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With that computational power and the ability to tirelessly swim across vast oceans, the Wave Glider SV3 represents a big step forward in the state-of-the-art of unmanned monitoring and exploration.
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Okay, so technology was pretty much crap compared to what we take for granted today, especially when it came to the computational power required to get to the moon and back.
In addition, EC2 servers have massive computational power.
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With Big Data, we are now entering the era when we will measure every data point, and then have the tools and computational power to crunch the resulting terabytes to find the secrets that lie within.
"If you think about almost any dimension of human activity, it will ultimately be touched by this ability to harness computational power, " says Dan Sichel, a Wellesley College professor who argues the official productivity numbers understate technology's impact.
"If you speak to (aerodynamic and hydrodynamics) experts they say there is a lot more that can be done because our computational power will be at a level where we can understand the nuances of small changes, " he said.
"One challenge in supercomputers today is power consumption, " said Jeff Nichols, associate laboratory director for computing and computational sciences.
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Chimera architecture removes those boundaries by providing the power to conduct nearly 100 billion mathematical operations per second to perform image processing, using computational techniques used in X-ray CT scanners, deep space telescopes and spy satellites.
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