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Gamers and the military actually. Lots of the same technology that gamers drool over are perfect for better training in the miltary too.... Drool over this:  World's First Commercial Quantum Computer Demonstrated Marcus Yam (Blog) - February 14, 2007 5:10 PM http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6102 Canadian firm D-Wave Systems unveiled and demonstrated today what it calls “the world's first commercially viable quantum computer.” Company officials announced the technology at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California in a demonstration intended to show how the machine can run commercial applications and is better suited to the types of problems that have stymied conventional (digital) computers. As an example, consider the modeling of a nanosized structure, such as a drug molecule, using non-quantum computers. Solving the Schrodinger Equation ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schrodinger_Equation ) more than doubles in difficulty for every electron in the molecule. Quantum computers are capable of solving the Schrodinger Equation with linear scaling exponentially faster and with exponentially less hardware than conventional computers. Even very primitive quantum computers will be able to outperform supercomputers in simulating nature. The science community takes a leery stance at D-Wave's quantum computer ( http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6111 ). |
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Yellow Dog + RapidMind use the SPE's on the Cell.... Seems that Chip-ware is really dropping prices and upping power, an update. Astrophysicist Replaces Supercomputer with Eight PlayStation 3s Right now, a cluster of eight interlinked PS3s is busy solving a celestial mystery involving gravitational waves. It turns out that the PS3 is ideal for doing precisely the kind of heavy computational lifting Dr. Gaurav Khanna requires for his project. By Bryan Gardiner, Oct 17, 2007 http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/10/ps3_supercomputer .... Sony is teaming up with Stanford to put the power of the PS3 to use in the fight against disease. Folding@Home is hoping to learn more about the way that genes "fold" (change shape); mapping those changes could potentially lead to cures for diseases like Parkinson's or cancer. So what does that have to do with your PS3? That's the really cool bit. By Susan Arendt, March 15, 2007 http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/03/use_your_ps3_to.html |
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crooks_uk
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very interesting thread.
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Yeah, this is pretty interesting but the question is in what way will the algorithms evolve? Won't it be better maybe to have some 8 core Intel CPU in some 18 months then cell? I read that cell (namely PS3) is good only for certain types of calculations.
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courine
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Yes, much like the gpu on a modern graphics card. The theory would point to very high speed crunching. The fact though is that only part of the crunching can use its type of calculations.
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.... in what way will the algorithms evolve? Won't it be better maybe to have some 8 core ... CPU .... As the hardware progresses so does the software. The single greatest problem is heat (wasteful/destructive) that is finally being conquered with cooler light photoprocessing (plants have been doing it since the beginings). Now: researchers report a significant advance in the quest to send information between multiple cores ...on a chip using pulses of light through silicon, instead of electrical signals on wires. The breakthrough, known in the industry as a silicon Mach-Zehnder electro-optic modulator, converts electrical signals into pulses of light. The IBM device is 100 to 1,000 times smaller than similar modulators. That reduction paves the way to integrating entire optical routing networks on a single chip. The result could be supercomputers that would fit into a laptop PC. In addition, the advance could significantly reduce cost, energy and heat. While today’s supercomputers often use the equivalent energy required to power hundreds of homes, these future tiny supercomputers-on-a-chip would expend the energy of a light bulb. Work is underway within IBM and in the industry to pack ... cores. see: http://news.soft32.com/supercomputer-could-fit-in-a-laptop-pc_5705.html " Supercomputer Could Fit in a Laptop PC " by Adrian Flucuş, Dec 7, 2007. PaulT |
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