Hello there all, I have a question. Why does medical research take up alot of computing power/processing power. For example the folding@home project by Stanford ? Another example being weather calculations or weather research. What exactly makes them take up so much power ? For example, I saw in a news clip that the army just bought alot of PS3's to simulate a human brain. Do all these 3 examples have different traits or something else ?
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Jump to PostLet me preface this by saying that I am not an expert in any of these fields but I have had some exposure to the underlying theory, so facts are AFAIK. Please pardon any textbookiness.
The least common denominator is they all involve the solution of simultaneous differential equations …
Jump to PostYes and for a medical scientest to do something like calculate the genitic makup of a couples future child that would require huge amounts of cpu as there are billions of dna protines to calculate. So with everything being theoratically possible but the cache is you allways need relavent cpu. …
Jump to PostThe main problem is the massive amount of data.
The same thing happens in some areas of physics where the amount of data generated in a single experiment can run into the petabytes.
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