"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.

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However, the dramatically accelerated drop in computing costs together with the development of powerful software tools has made business software tremendously cheaper and easier to build and implement.

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One outcome of unrelenting data growth in datacenters and mobile networks has been the accelerated adoption of cloud computing.

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