Tiny embedded processors "will not use huge amounts of processing power, but power consumption will become more and more critical," says Ganesh Ramamoorthy of Gartner, a research and consulting firm.
In animation, Linux made its first inroads a few years ago on the clusters of server computers used in "rendering farms," which require huge amounts of processing to render a finished image of a creature or character as it appears on movie screens.
Although there is nothing simple about what he does — it takes a huge amount of processing power to both hear and react in real time as a confected persona — he can use the environment to add luster to his satire without feeling compelled to add gravitas.
During the past few years, embedded digital systems have been requested to provide a huge amount of processing power and functionality.
Although current AIS show great potential for tackling intruders, they have been held back by the huge amount of processing required by traditional models of natural immune systems.
"We filter them all, and that takes huge amounts of computer processing power and Internet bandwidth, and it requires us to work constantly to keep the numbers from getting worse," Scarrow said.
It involves gathering huge amounts of data; processing them so that relevant information is displayed on a screen; and then destroying targets, at much greater distance and with much greater accuracy than was previously possible.
For example, in some of the recommendation problems dealing with millions of users, it is extremely important to have a scalable platform that can handle huge amounts of data processing and it is not absolutely required to have the results in a real-time manner.
That is, businesses with high volumes of contracts who spend a huge amount of time processing often thousands of sales contracts per year," he adds, noting that Juro's smallest customer processes 25 contracts per month and its largest in the region of 1,800.
I'll spare you my uber-nerdy lecture on head-related transfer functions (HRTF), but suffice it to say that really fooling your brain into thinking that sounds aren't coming from right next to your ears would require headphones to do a huge amount of data processing.
Biobanks, with their mountains of associated data, require huge amounts of storage and processing power, and represent a daunting, yet potentially lucrative new market for the computer giant.
