• Blue Horizon was used to develop 28,000
high-resolution images for video voyage to the Orion Nebula. (Website:
http://www.npaci.edu/online/v4.3/planetarium.html)
• The Blue Horizon parallel computer has also been used for
tackling problems such as modeling the
clean-up of toxic waste sites, forecasting the weather, modeling financial data,
designing cars, and
developing innovative drug therapies.
• The Biomedical Informatics Research Network uses parallel
computing
to collect and analyze biomedical images. (Website: http://www.nbirn.net)
• Modeling and predicting ocean circulation and climate.
(Website:
http://www.ecco.ucsd.edu)
• Developing large-scale models to estimate regional impacts of climate
change
(Website: http://www.anl.gov/OPA/frontiers/b8excell.html)
• It is possible for parallel computing to be applied to the
commercial world; for example, searching through a customer database
to predict client product preferences. The airlines use parallel
computing to process customer information, figure out forecasts,
and decide the fare charge. Parallel processing supercomputers are
used to study and analyze MRI images and models of bone implant systems.
• Scientists use parallel computing to develop and test several
different models of vehicles and guardrails for highways. Testing
different models using a single processing machine would take several
days as compared to a parallel processor that would take several
hours.
(Website: http://www.darwinmag.com/learn/curve/column.html?ArticleID=45)
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