Every boutique computer company offers its god - tower, a massively
powerful computer on the cutting edge in personal computing performance.
Minimum specifications represent the slowest, least
powerful computer on which the game will run and be playable, while a machine that meets all the «Recommended» specifications should be able to run the game with graphics, sounds, speeds, and other elements set at their standard or higher levels.
Sure, you may not get the most
powerful computer on the market, but you should get one that's good enough for basic tasks.
Steenkamp is still lobbying to get funds and more
powerful computers on Namibian soil so that he can do his simulation work from his office.
Working from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Munich, Janka has enlisted dozens of the world's most
powerful computers on a decades - long quest to understand the incredibly complex mechanism of a supernova.
Modern cars have
powerful computers on board that track events within the car.
Not exact matches
Smartphones are now more
powerful computers than PCs were a decade ago, and these advances bring with them even more technological delight — and questions about privacy — than their desktop brethren, thanks to always -
on GPS.
In a time before smartphones, AIM was
powerful and intoxicating, a way for a generation that once had called people
on the phone to communicate in quick bursts from their
computers.
Oracle is banking more
on what techies call a «scale - up» model in which fewer, but very
powerful computers — in Exadata's case each with its own integrated networking and storage — take
on big workloads.
However, if you can afford to spend more than that, you will be able to get something more
powerful and arguably better than the
computers on this list.
Typically when people talk about the cloud computing wars, the focus is
on cheaper, more
powerful computer resources, cheaper storage, and higher - end services.
Thousands of
powerful computers retrieve and update the information
on your screen.
The main purpose of this burglary was to get hold of the
powerful computers which would be useful for mining bitcoins and other virtual currencies
on a large scale.
But religion, unfounded self - reinforcing systems of belief that can have
powerful, often negative influences over virtually all parts of our lives, shouldn't have a place any more than mal - ware has a place
on our
computers.
WOULD N'T it be nice to have just one, all -
powerful program
on your
computer?
Mausumi Dikpati and her colleagues at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., used new observations of the sun's interior and new
computer simulations to model the flow of plasma, or electrically charged gas, that carry the sunspots like a conveyor belt until they become
powerful enough to burst free and erupt
on the sun's surface.
They proposed an algorithm that, if run
on a large enough quantum
computer, would produce results that couldn't be replicated by the world's most
powerful supercomputers.
Although meteorologists now rely heavily
on computer models (numerical weather prediction), it is still relatively common to use techniques and conceptual models that were developed before
computers were
powerful enough to make predictions accurately or efficiently.
Nervous Tissue and Computation If we accept that
computers will eventually become
powerful enough to simulate the mind, the question that naturally arises is: What processing rate will be necessary to yield performance
on a par with the human brain?
Through detailed
computer simulations, the scientists showed how the smaller particles have a
powerful impact
on storm clouds.
A
computer projector snapped
on and began displaying data from the Spitzer Space Telescope, a
powerful companion to the famed Hubble Space Telescope.
The study, known as Brain
Computer Interface (BCI) Controlled Prosthetic Arm Movement Is Possible in the Absence of Visual Input with Proprioceptive Feedback, demonstrates that proprioception can have a
powerful impact
on BCI - controlled prosthetic arm movements and should be an important target for sensory restoration.
Their method relies
on a
powerful computer to combine weather data from several sources and then look for telltale patterns of temperature, humidity...
NdFeB magnets are the most
powerful on earth, and used in everything from
computer hard drives and head phones to clean energy technologies such as electric vehicles and wind turbines.
After a number gets to be more than 10,000 digits long, even
powerful computers quickly become bogged down in the task, forcing scientists to rely
on less - than - perfect probability techniques.
«We're installing a more
powerful computer at the observatory in Hawaii to process the images seconds after they are acquired and provide the data
on the internet within a minute or two of acquisition.»
New radar technology will allow forecasters to better «see» extreme weather, as will potential improvements to satellite technology, as well as
computer models that run
on more
powerful supercomputers.
Despite constant murmurs about Moore's Law's imminent demise (including by Moore himself), researchers keep churning out faster, more
powerful computers right
on schedule.
Purdue University doctoral student Yang Xu, lead author of a new research paper
on «topological insulators,» an emerging class of materials that could make possible «spintronic» devices and practical quantum
computers far more
powerful than today's technologies, is shown here inspecting devices made from topological insulators under a microscope before electrical measurements.
How would you like to have just one all -
powerful program
on your
computer?
Time spent in meaningful interactions with patients is a
powerful driver of physician career satisfaction, but increased paperwork and time
on the
computer means less time for direct patient care.
Some are heading for the clouds — cloud computing, that is, a pay - as - you - go service, accessible from one's own desktop, that provides rented time
on a large cluster of machines that work together in parallel as fast as, or faster than, a single
powerful computer.
With a quantum
computer, APL researchers have now shown that these calculations can be done much faster and model much more complex objects than would be possible using even
on the most
powerful classical supercomputers.
And Galaxy Zoo 2 appears to be a hit, too — according to the project's staff blog, an onslaught of traffic
on day one necessitated a move to a more
powerful computer, and for a spell
on Wednesday afternoon (day two) the Galaxy Zoo Web site was down again.
The panel also recommended that NIH establish a new program aimed at organizing and curating massive biological databases, such as one
on the mouse genome; set aside funds for researchers to hire biocomputing help; and support scientists assembling midsize
computer networks that are more
powerful than desktop machines but easier to manage than supercomputers.
For the project, the researchers developed a particularly
powerful version of their highly parallel moving - mesh code AREPO and used it
on the Hazel Hen machine at the High - Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany's fastest mainframe
computer, currently ranked nineteenth in the Top500.
Designers
on opposite sides of the world will soon be able to work
on the same 3 - D
computer model using ordinary personal
computers linked by ordinary phone lines, rather than
powerful graphics workstations.
These computational investigations typically rely
on scientific software that makes it possible to perform virtual experiments and explore laboratory research data with reliable, reproducible results, whether one is using a desktop
computer or the nation's most
powerful supercomputers.
To handle this much data, ALMA will rely
on a very
powerful, specialized
computer called a correlator, which will perform 16,000 million - million operations per second.
For the project, the researchers developed a particularly
powerful version of their highly parallel moving - mesh code AREPO and used it
on the Hazel Hen machine, Germany's fastest mainframe
computer, at the High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart.
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) high - performance
computer sites have selected a dynamic fusion code, led by physicist C.S. Chang of the DOE's Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL), for optimization
on three
powerful new supercomputers.
The data must be analyzed using sophisticated model atmospheres created by the team in 3D and included complex calculations that run for weeks
on powerful super
computers.
My research relies
on computing resources, and not every university has such
powerful computers.»
Instead of using x-rays, MRI uses a
powerful magnet and transmits radio waves through the body; the images appear
on a
computer screen as well as
on film.
However, before Milo and Teddy can get their company off the ground, Milo receives a very tempting offer from Gary Winston (Tim Robbins), a trailblazing genius in the digital world who has turned his company N.U.R.V. (which stands for «Never Underestimate Radical Vision») into one of the richest and most
powerful computer firms
on Earth.
I have a fairly
powerful computer consisting of 3 GB memory, 2.4 gH processing speed, and a 256 MB video card (NVidia GT8600), running windows 7, and I CA N'T even play this game
on the lowest settings.
It's
on par with their best work, with Bends, OK
Computer, Kid A. It's a sign, a symptom of our dark times (the
powerful elites stoking wars to sell arms to stir the growth of economies, endless river of destitute refuges, terrorism, corruption, pollution, tax cuts and tax avoidance for the rich and austerity and welfare cuts for the poor etc.).
Armed with
powerful computer algorithms that generate cartoonish eruptions of earth, fire, wind, and water, today's VFX supervisors have a mandate to make bad things happen
on screen — all of the bad things, preferably at the same time.
He owns an internet company that only grows more and more
powerful as its users grow more and more reliant
on computers.
This time around, we learn that the Horsemen (Jesse Eisenberg's Atlas, Woody Harrelson's Merritt, Dave Franco's Jack, plus Lizzy Caplan as the bubbly Lula after Isla Fisher dropped out) have been in hiding for a few years, but finally have a shot at starting over
on the other side of the world in Macau if they can steal «the stick» — an all -
powerful computer chip... or something like that — and deliver it to the dastardly tech guru Walter Mabry (Daniel Radcliffe) so that he could do evil things with it.