From football helmets, to a boat that drives itself, thousands of hours and millions of grant dollars each year pay for ongoing research at Virginia Tech
Creators of a new supercomputer called 'HokieSpeed,' aim to make that research more efficient.
"Make most efficient use of your dollars, your manpower, your personnel resources," said Feng.
'HokieSpeed' applied in sports, could help accelerate concussion readings, although creator Wu Feng does not claim to be a neuroscientist.
"When a football player like Colt McCoy (Cleveland Browns QB) who got that concussion, if you can then take his readings in real-time and analyze them in real time, and compare it to some reference, and you see that there's some difference, and it's significant enough difference, than you say, oh, he's gotta come out of the game," Feng says.
You have to shout when you are near the supercomputer because dozens of fans are running constantly to keep the system cool.
But while it can get hot in the room, Hokiespeed is near the top in the country in energy efficiency.
"On the green 500 list of energy efficient super-computing we're number eleven. So that's what places us as the number one highest ranked, 'commodity-based U.S. super-computer,'" Feng said.
It is one researchers at Virginia Tech expect to keep the college competitive in nationwide research.
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