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The supercomputer goes personal

2009; Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Volume: 46; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1109/mspec.2009.4808388

1939-9340

Paul Wallich,

Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research

Video gamers and graphic artists have funded a revolution in high-performance computing. The same massively parallel chips that figure out exactly the right color for each pixel in Street Fighter IV are now being used to calculate protein folding, predict climate change, and crack the encryption of hitherto-secure Web sites.