Whilst the lighting and effects are certainly impressive, getting their full effect requires a fairly powerful computer.
And the breakthroughs are in large part down to extremely powerful computer processors now at the disposal of genetic researchers.
He says that with so many devices around, the value of having a powerful computer on a single chip has diminished.
Thus, it comes as no surprise that the Internal Revenue Service has one of the most powerful computer operations in the world.
This means the calculations quickly become too complicated for even a powerful computer to handle an arrangement involving more than a few atoms.
All you need then is a powerful computer program to match up the overlaps, and you can reconstruct the original order of the base pairs.
When put inside powerful computer servers, the Cell consortium expects it to be capable of handling 16 trillion floating point operations, or calculations, every second.
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The scientists used a powerful computer model to simulate how a liquid released at the spill site would disperse and circulate, producing results that are not dependent on the total amount released.
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Rosetta brings two technologies to bear on sluggish drug development: chips that have been covered with a series of genes using what is essentially a modified inkjet printing process, and powerful computer algorithms that use pattern recognition technology to show how whole sets of genes are being turned on and off.
The more powerful a computer becomes, the more complex its power supply becomes too.
Scientists like Omar Ghattas see great potential in the exponentially more powerful Stampede computer.
Not just because it's a powerful gaming computer (it is), but also because of its modularity.
The president of the powerful Sony Computer Entertainment group gives thumbs down to visions of the future concocted by other Sony groups.
The C64x Extreme is the most powerful Commodore computer ever produced, running at a whopping 3.3Ghz with Intel's Turbo Boost Technology.
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PCs in networks served by a powerful central computer seemed splendid.
He says that Visa has a great brand, a huge network and one of the most powerful, reliable computer systems on the planet.
Last year, the corporation invested further in producing components for mobile phones, moving away from the powerful D-RAM computer chips.
She's running into opposition from a powerful group, the Computer and Communications Industry Association, whose members include TurboTax publisher Intuit and E-File Tax Returns.
Instead of a portal gun, your clone avatar has your wits, a surprisingly powerful jump, some computer skills and a healthy acceptance of mortality.
This gives the state a powerful tool for monitoring computer traffic.
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And if you were to say that something thousands of times more powerful than the one computer that thousands of us shared at MIT would fit in your pocket, people would think you were crazy.
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Well, the first iPhone was more powerful than the Apollo guidance computer used to send the first man to the moon.
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The hardware progression has been from the mainframe to the personal computer to more powerful clustered servers, with cost and access moving back and forth between large enterprises and corporations to small businesses and individuals.
Without a computer, the most powerful mind would sink under the load of information.
Available with up to a 2.9GHz processor, the Modbook Pro isthe world's most powerful and largest-screen tablet computer.
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The resources of those individual machines will then be pooled to create a massive computing "grid, " a virtual computer that is more powerful than the fastest supercomputers.
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