Increased computing power and new parallel algorithms have made computer simulations important parts of drug design.
Increased computing power and disk space combined with decreasing costs were supposed to make anything born digital possible to store for ever.
Sean Maloney, Intel's chief sales and marketing officer, said last week that the chips' increased computing power would begin the transformation of today's stuttering and blurry videos, the staple of YouTube and other video streaming sites, into high-resolution, full-screen quality that will begin to compete with the living room HDTV.
Experts from the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence are participating in the week-long session in Geneva which will consider whether increased computing power will eventually enable drones and other machines to select targets and carry out attacks without direct human intervention.
Pharmaceutical researchers need increased computing power to design drug molecules that bind to specific cell receptors.
The techniques for performing trade-off analyses have developed substantially in recent years aided by mathematical advancement, increased computing power, and emerging insights into systems behaviour.
Technology has advanced in several fields, making genetic sequences cheaper and faster to obtain and vastly improving our ability to analyze those data through increased computing power and new analytic methods.
There are always benefits – increased computing power or mobility or ease-of-use or some exciting combination of features that might have seemed unimaginable just a few years earlier.
It may be part of the innovation cycle, that the next things we're trying to solve will require either some greatly increased computing power to model these things, some barrier beyond which when we cross it there will be another flowering of real serious innovation akin to the railroad or something like that.
I tear through initially unfamiliar papers on Quantum Key Distributions, a potential method of encryption using quantum computing, and quantum algorithms, banking on exponentially increased computing power to tackle the most currently intractable problems, from molecular simulations to climate change models to stock market prediction for systemic risk.
Recently, advances in the development of algorithms and increased computing power have led to considerable improvements concerning the first phase.
