IBM Claims Breakthrough Energy-Efficient Algorithm 231
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jitendraharlalka sends news of a claimed algorithmic breakthrough by IBM, though from the scant technical detail provided it's hard to tell exactly how important the development might be. IBM apparently presented its results yesterday at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics conference in Seattle. The breathless press release begins: "IBM Research today unveiled a breakthrough method based on a mathematical algorithm that reduces the computational complexity, costs, and energy usage for analyzing the quality of massive amounts of data by two orders of magnitude. This new method will greatly help enterprises extract and use the data more quickly and efficiently to develop more accurate and predictive models. In a record-breaking experiment, IBM researchers used the fourth most powerful supercomputer in the world... 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."
Wat (Score:4, Funny)
I guess they stopped using Windows Vista?
Impressive but (Score:4, Funny)
Can it organise my porn?
Re:Clarification? (Score:5, Funny)
"What kind of data? What are they trying to extract? And for what end?"
The web. Porn. Fun.
In that order.
Empty statements (Score:5, Funny)
...for analyzing the quality of massive amounts of data...
I have an algorithm that does that in O(1):
return "Not the best quality, but pretty good.";
Zombie Computer Says: (Score:5, Funny)
Now you just need the brains. Brains to design the system, brains to drive the investigation, and brains to try to improve the algorithms the system uses. ... Er, but what are we going to do with all the people who just don't "have" the brains?
Mmmm, brains ...
Re:Wat (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Color me impressed! (Score:3, Funny)
You don't realize that to post his comment, mcgrew traveled back in time from 2104 using his cell phone.
Re:just trying to be relevant (Score:4, Funny)
Er, but what are we going to do with all the people who just don't "have" the brains? They get a free ride?
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Re:This is a pretty good energy-saving algo... (Score:4, Funny)
Running this once should reduce your PC's energy consumption to near zoro:
The only problem is, with all that jumping around and swordplay, Zorro ends up using tons of energy.
Re:Green-washing (Score:5, Funny)
The fans on servers have variable speed. Case closed.
I believe that you will find those fans can still run at variable speeds with the case open.
What?
Re:I'd expect this (Score:3, Funny)
I think he gets his insults from moveon.org.
Re:Green-washing (Score:2, Funny)
With faster algorithms, the machine can just get more jobs done in the same amount of time. But the jobs will just keep coming, so the energy use never changes.
Or are the new algorithms SO fast that all processing needs of humanity will be done in a week, thereby allowing us to turn off all supercomputers? Now that would save energy.
Hey now! Everyone knows that 5 IBM mainframes covers the entire world market for computers.
Re:Clarification? (Score:2, Funny)
Porn. The web. Fun.
Re:Cool, they've "discovered" PostgreSQL. (Score:3, Funny)
hah, only on slashdot can someone post exaggerated urban legends and be marked interesting while a dose of reality gets "troll"