What started as a gaming device in the living room has moved well beyond that space in a year. Engineers and enthusiasts alike are exploring a variety of uses for Kinect, Kipman says, including in the operating room. There is enthusiasm sweeping across a wide range of industries.
Northwestern University School for Continuing Studies’ Master of Science in Predictive Analytics (MSPA) made its debut to 170 students this past September, far surpassing the faculty’s expectations of numbers of applicants and depth of applicants’ experience and credentials.
Applicable to a growing set of computationally intensive workloads within the scientific community, Blue Gene/Q is the ideal platform for highly complex projects in a broad range of areas from nuclear energy to climate modeling. If conflicts are detected, the hardware can backtrack and redo the work without affecting application performance.
