The annual interest on the fund would pay for the computers, estimated to cost about $500 for each student.
Sales of mainframe computers account for less than 10 percent of the worldwide market for data center computers, estimated to be $49 billion this year, according to the International Data Corporation, a research firm in Framingham, Mass.
Japan, for example, produces 40 percent of lightweight memory chips most commonly used for storage in digital music players, smart phones and tablet computers, estimated Jim Handy, an analyst at Objective Analysis, a research firm.
For the remaining two years, they let the computer estimate intensity based on seismic data alone.
They further solidified their findings by letting the computer estimate whether a given image had more or fewer objects than a given number.
Briefly, each slice in the coronal series was displayed on the computer screen, and an initial computer estimate of inner skull boundary, CSF, and brain tissue in that slice based upon pixel intensity values was performed automatically using the contour-based thresholding function of IDL.
Vulnerable parts of the higher, colder ice sheet of East Antarctica would eventually fall apart, too, and the result by the year 2500 would be 43 feet of sea level rise from Antarctica alone, with still more water coming from elsewhere, the computer estimated.
The simulations, which took only three months to run and required the crunching power of a mere laptop computer, estimated where and when the cracking in the titanium would start within a quarter of an inch (on a 3-foot-long by 6-inch-wide blade) and within 1% of the number of physical testing cycles.
I read the item from 2009, when MIT climate scientists announced the results of their latest, best computer modeling: Without immediate wrenching changes, the world will get much hotter than even their horribly gloomy, less-sophisticated computer estimates from 2003 said.
These results were obtained with normalization by both the computer estimated and pathologist estimated epithelium percentage.
