Pricing 150, 000 equity options in a second or assessing how much crude oil sits in a pocket 6 miles below the earth's surface are massively parallel mathematical computing problems for which graphics processors are peculiarly equipped.
While Gnodal switches solve problems in cloud computing and high performance environments, they can also help improve the performance of most data centers that are becoming more complex.
"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 accelerated computing business at Nvidia.
Traditionally, the Linux and open-source software communities focused on solving the software problems of enterprise and computing markets with a limited choice of processor platforms.
One of the largest employers was Sandia National Laboratories, a Department of Energy unit established in 1949 to develop nuclear weapons and now also working on solutions to nonmilitary problems in energy, computing and geologic sciences.
Quantum computing might eventually solve many of our problems in the future, but what about the pressing issues of today?
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In an article in IEEE Internet Computing, Cloud Computing: The Limits of Public Clouds for Business Applications, I point out several problems the public cloud vendors will have to solve to support business computing.
The bottom line is that the next generation of computing is about solving hard engineering and architecture problems.
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The new NVIDIA Tesla K10 and K20 GPUs are computing accelerators built to handle the most complex HPC problems in the world.
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The world's largest technology company, HP brings together a portfolio that spans printing, personal computing, software, services and IT infrastructure to solve customer problems.
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It says assuming such problems can be resolved, about 485 million wearable computing devices might ship by 2018, providing a significant growth opportunity for Apple and the wider consumer electronics industry.
But with increased computerization, networking, wireless communications and cloud computing means more opportunities for hacking, malware, and all the problems that go with them.
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The Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) was established at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 2004 with the mission of providing leadership computing for scientists working on some of the world's most pressing problems.
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And so, when a new release of Windows came on the market customers (and particularly business owners) were generally excited not just as much by the new features that would make their computing lives more fun, but more importantly with the fixes to the problems that plagued their daily lives too.
Even if these problems are solved, Linux will need help to break into the mainstream of corporate computing.
Rather than find new techniques to carry out DNA computing, Dr Rozenberg believes that harnessing the information processing abilities of living organisms to tackle tricky computational problems could be more fruitful.
Despite these problems, 85% of respondents indicated that they had realized benefits from the change to cloud computing.
GigaSpaces provides a commercial alternative that has also won fans among some Web, cloud computing and online gaming firms, as well as financial services and telecom players with very large data analysis problems.
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