Many individuals have pooled their computer power to ensure this mathematical work is completed more quickly.
Even so, it requires a great deal of number-crunching, and therefore lots of computer power.
Even though you increase single-computer power usage when consolidating, net power decreases as you take other systems offline.
No one had the computer power to massage all the numbers, so there wasn't any use in standardizing everything.
It mostly consumes ever-expandable resources, such as ideas, computer power and effort.
Computer power, storage and bandwidth get better and cheaper by the year.
By the end of last year, Zoom had enough computer power to open its search engine to the masses--and to process credit-card payments.
He said two main limitations have held SDR back: the speed at which analogue-to-digital converters turn radio waves into numbers, and computer power.
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These days a lot of Chevron's combined brain and computer power is tuned to peer into the gulf's promising Lower Tertiary Wilcox trend.
Google is a successful business because it wastes computer power--it has some 120, 000 servers powering its search engine--while it conserves its dearest resource, people.
Thirty years ago -- well, NASAs elite Ames Research Center, supported by the Department of Defense, could barely assemble one measly mip of computer power.
The strange science of quantum mechanics promises a revolution in computer power as radical as that following the invention of the transistor in the 1950s.
In many cases these are older machines which benefit from the fact it is less demanding on computer power than Windows - and is virus-free.
Increased computer power gives the latest games an almost photographic realism.
Small businesses, which have no budget for a big technology department, are especially eager to take advantage of the cheap computer power offered in the cloud.
Today the cheapest resources are computer power and bandwidth.
Now, however, thanks to the dramatic decline in the cost of computer power, wireless devices are far cleverer, meaning that they can use spectrum more efficiently and are more tolerant of interference.
Grid computing attempts to connect up the islands of processing power and data in the world's universities and to standardise ways of interrogating data and calling on huge amounts of computer power.
If there are ways systematically to beat the markets these days, they probably require men with physics doctorates and massive computer power rather than a smooth manner and the right contact book.
Cloud computing "is a catch-all term for the ability to rent as much computer power as you need without having to buy it, without having to know a lot about it, " McAfee says.
Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) is a successful business because it wastes computer power--it has some 120, 000 servers powering its search engine--while it conserves its dearest resource, people.
At the other extreme, scavenging spare computer power from personal computers on the internet is proving an increasingly effective approach for problems that can be split into a large number of small, independent parts.
IBM's "brick" initiative which creates data storage farms out of cheap blocks of hard discs and the broader push for "blade" servers that make adding computer power easy to add were evidence of this move to commoditisation, said Mr Findlay.
This has mirrored progress in fields as diverse as speech recognition and credit-card fraud detection, where modern techniques combined with a continuing explosion in computer power have made possible behaviour that seems very like human intelligence, albeit limited to a specific domain.
Summary: Computer processing power is plentiful and is getting cheaper at a rate of 30% per year.
Mr. Melvin says he spends hours at the computer tracing power lines, looking for telltale shadows of electric towers or posts.
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Much work is left to get the proteins producing the kind of silicon or titanium dioxides that could run a computer or power your house, but the dream is to have synthetic creations that organically produce what would normally need a mining expedition -- imagine something akin to the glass-like Venus' Flower Basket sponge (pictured above) sitting in an Intel factory.
Apple Computer announces faster Power Macs, sharpens its flat-panel displays and slashes prices on both.
The device includes a fixed micro-USB connector and a pop-out flexible cable to plug into your computer or another power source.
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