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IBM hails ‘breakthrough’ algorithm
In an experiment IBM researchers used the fourth most powerful supercomputer in the world – a Blue Gene/P system at the Forschungszentrum Julich in Germany – to validate nine terabytes of data in less than 20 minutes, without compromising accuracy. Ordinarily, using the same system, this would take more than a day. Additionally, the process used just one percent of the energy that would typically be required.…
