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Posted: Sun Jan 01, 2012 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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....For those of us less "numerate" here's a basic idea of what it's all for:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/take-it-to-the-limit/
| Quote: | | More than two millennia later, this strategy matured into the modern field of “numerical analysis.” When engineers use computers to design cars to be optimally streamlined, or when biophysicists simulate how a new chemotherapy drug latches onto a cancer cell, they are using numerical analysis. The mathematicians and computer scientists who pioneered this field have created highly efficient, repetitive algorithms, running billions of times per second, that enable computers to solve problems in every aspect of modern life, from biotech to Wall Street to the Internet. In each case, the strategy is to find a series of approximations that converge to the correct answer as a limit. |
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Posted: Thu Dec 01, 2011 2:22 am Post subject: |
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Cray finally makes it in Japan:
http://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4231024/Cray-to-provide-supercomputer-to-Kyoto-University
| Quote: | The firm said it would deliver a 300-teraflops Cray XE6 supercomputer in 2012 and follow up with a 400-teraflops supercomputer code-named “Cascade” in 2014.
Cray is the first non-Japanese supercomputer vendor chosen as a prime contractor and supplier to one of Japan’s seven major national universities. The deal would also bring Cray its first order for a Cascade system in Asia. |
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