GPUs are predicting the action of cancer inside the body. As
many of us know, cancer is currently treated with a highly
potent beam of radiation. This works very well to kill the
cancer cells and hopefully destroy the tumor, but radiation does
not discriminate; it kills all cells in its path – cancer or
otherwise. Doctors avoid the healthy cells by taking accurate
MRI scans. The problem with these 3-D models is that most are
out of date – sometimes by months. Inaccuracies in the scans
lead to questions such as: How large has the tumor grown? Has
the tumor recessed somewhere else? The answers to these
questions are critical when high power beams of radiation are
being directed into a patient. An updated MRI scan every day is
quite inconvenient for most patients, making that solution
unfeasible and too expensive. With more and more developers and
enterprises utilizing parallel computing to run their
supercomputers, more are using clusters of Nvidia GPUs, or to be
more specific, Tesla GPUs. Tesla GPUs have been