Scan your branes LIVE IN REAL-TIME, thanks to GPU-surfin' boffins Let’s say you’re at a gathering – maybe a cocktail party or a crowded club – and some buff athlete shows up on crutches. He immediately becomes the center of attention as he recounts the story of his injury. “Dude, it was gnarly," he bellows so that everyone can hear. "A totally sick shred. Now I’m waitin’ on the MRI results. …
In the 1970s CT scan processing was an early candidate for using massively parallel (well thousands) of bit serial processors. Good idea but never took off.
Now you can get literally 100s of times that power in (by medical hardware terms) tiny sums of money.
With enough resolution and political will every politician could be inside one when they speak. Instantaneous confirmation of lies (or a sociopathic character that literally cannot tell a lie from a truth).
The possibilities are endless.
"found that a 12.7 Teraflop-per-second, two-socket Xeon system with 96GB RAM and four Nvidia GTX 580 (total of 8 GPUs) will do the trick"
That's a lot of TeraFlops per second from some graphics GPU units soldered to a PCB board with some RAM memory!
Flops == Floating-point Operations Per Second, for any stupid people watching.
It's all electronics and radio waves, but neither my computer nor my radio make that sort of a racket. Are the magnetic fields so strong that we're hearing the structure being warped out of shape? If so, I hope they have the framework inspected at least as often as an airliners. If not, what's going on?
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