And computational power is being unlocked like never before by new massively parallel computing paradigms like Hadoop.
Parallel computing has been the holy grail of supercomputer design almost since the dawn of the silicon age.
Supercomputer scientists have been pushing the idea of parallel computing for years.
Huang argues this is a natural for Nvidia, whose graphics business is built on building chips able to do the parallel computing work that makes computer graphics pop.
Scala programs apportion parallel computing tasks among everything from the different computing cores on a single chip, to the different servers in a data center, to different data centers.
Erlang, developed by telecommunications company Ericsson for massively parallel computing in a phone network, then later released as an open source language, both influenced Scala and is enjoying some rebirth in the world of global data centers.
The development of CUDA, a parallel computing architecture developed by Nvidia, the leading GPU company, in 2006-2007, changed everything, said Hanweck, who founded Hanweck Associates, to develop a low latency, real-time options analytics engine to price and manage risk for options using GPUs.
Pricing 150, 000 equity options in a second or assessing how much crude oil sits in a pocket 6 miles below the earth's surface are massively parallel mathematical computing problems for which graphics processors are peculiarly equipped.
Watson, harnesses a massively parallel network of two to three thousand Power 7 computing cores in six refrigerator-sized containers.
Watson, harnesses a massively parallel network of 2, 000 to 3, 000 Power 7 computing cores in six refrigerator-size containers.
Vertex labs are packed with workstations that tap 112 Pentium chips in parallel, capable of crunching 110 gigaflops per second, roughly the same computing power used to produce the National Weather Service's two-week global climate model.
In a parallel universe, MeeGo became the standard operating system for netbooks, which became the dominant form of mobile computing.
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