IBM Claims Breakthrough Energy-Efficient Algorithm

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."

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just trying to be relevant

[pydev]

Sounds like someone found a faster algorithm (maybe just constants), and since energy efficiency is the hot new thing, "faster" is now translated into "saves energy".

TFA is worthless

[Anonymous Coward]

This would be a real story if it gave implementation details, but it doesn't even tell us what the algorithm does; therefore it's totally worthless. Get this crap off the front page.