Among them are routine but vital tasks that were labour-intensive before the computing revolution: manufacturing and number-crunching jobs that used to pay handsomely.

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In the work of NCBI Staff Scientist and genomics expert Martin Shumway, distilling these large volumes of raw sequencing data requires more sophisticated computing algorithms, intensive quality control and indexing for online searchability by the science community.

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NetApp, the third largest vendor of external data storage systems in the world after EMC and IBM, said the acquisition will help it win business in the rapidly growing bandwidth intensive video and high-performance computing markets.

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This kind of technology poses a serious threat to hardware products like gaming consoles and GPUs, which serve the primary purpose of providing necessary computing power to run graphic intensive games.

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