{"id":35391,"date":"2017-03-16T18:42:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T01:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/supercomputers-may-boost-life-expectancy"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:08:59","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:08:59","slug":"supercomputers-may-boost-life-expectancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/supercomputers-may-boost-life-expectancy","title":{"rendered":"Supercomputers may boost life expectancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supercomputers-may-boost-life-expectancy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is nowhere near the power of the biggest systems, but still allows us to participate in research and development powered by supercomputer.<\/p>\n<p>The idea that a computer could deliver an increase in life expectancy arises for a number of reasons, Prof Desplat says. Major gains are expected from the emergence of personalised medicine, care specifically tailored to match your genetic make-up. This will be driven in the not too distant future by \u201cdeep artificial intelligence learning\u201d run on a supercomputer. These will also deliver faster more accurate early diagnosis, he says.<\/p>\n<p>These computers are used in a variety of ways, from weather forecasting and climate <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/search\/search-7.1213540\">modelling<\/a> to energy usage modelling, statistical processing and seismic analysis when prospecting for oil and gas.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/science\/supercomputers-may-boost-life-expectancy-by-10-years-1.3000987\">http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/news\/science\/supercomputers-may-bo...-1.3000987<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is nowhere near the power of the biggest systems, but still allows us to participate in research and development powered by supercomputer. The idea that a computer could deliver an increase in life expectancy arises for a number of reasons, Prof Desplat says. Major gains are expected from the emergence of personalised medicine, care [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":369,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,6,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-robotics-ai","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/369"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58387,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35391\/revisions\/58387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}