Wednesday, February 16, 2011
From Diagnosis to Prevention
Case 1 of chapter 3 spoke about grid processing, and in class we reviewed the benefits and uses of utilizing such technology. One use that struck me as crucial to today is the diagnosis of cancer and how grid processing can identify cancerous tissue early on. It makes me wonder if using this regularly to monitor human cells can play a role in eradicating cancer by detecting any abnormalities in their early stages, or even before they occur. We also identified the use of grid technology to be beneficial in any case with large amounts of data. It's a stretch, but it makes me wonder if there is any way to apply this to economics and forecasting in regards to financial planning on the national level. By the way - are we supposed to be posting after every class session or just once a week?
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Yasmin: I hope you post good stuff once or twice a week; quality is far more important than quantity.
ReplyDeleteImagine grid computing in a corporate setting: management tells their workers to leave their desktop machines one when they go home so the company can use those unused CPU cycles to try to solve some really difficult problem. Most companies today don't do that, but it's partly because of ignorance on their part...