[rmlew]

Not to be an Nvidia fanboy, but damn.
Nvidia has taken its 128 Steam Processor Cards (8800GTX) and reworked them not only for professional workstations, but turned them into highly programmable, massively parallel systems.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/tesla_computing_solutions.html

[miliantnutcase]

I’m an Nvidia fan boy! Can you say folding monster?

[pipecorp]

I used to have ati, now I’m running 8800 gt .... its nice!

[ThePythonicCow]

Breast cancer incidence rates in the U.S. are actually among the highest in the world, affecting about 101 out of 100,000 women on average. According to current statistics, the breast cancer in 19 of these 1001 women is fatal.

There was pretty obviously a typo somewhere in the above numbers; is it 101 or 1001 women out of 100,000?

A quick seach of breast cancer rates makes it clear that the "1001" was the error. It should have been "101". That is each year, one in a thousand women will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and one in five thousand women will die of breast cancer.

[ThePythonicCow]

Just to put it context however, breast cancer is not the top cause of death in American women. From http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/statistics/:

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Statistics

Aside from non-melanoma skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common form of cancer in women. Breast cancer is the number one cause of cancer death in Hispanic women. It is the second most common cause of cancer death in white, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native women.

In 2004 (the most recent year numbers are available),

• 186,772 women and 1,815 men were diagnosed with breast cancer*^†
• 40,954 women and 362 men died from breast cancer*^†

^†Source: U.S. Cancer Statistics Working Group. United States Cancer Statistics: 2004 Incidence and Mortality. Atlanta (GA): Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and National Cancer Institute; 2007.

*Note: Incidence counts cover approximately 98% of the U.S. population and death counts cover 100% of the U.S. population. Use caution in comparing incidence and death counts.

Top 10 Causes of Death for Women in the United States^‡

The graph below shows how breast cancer compares to other common causes of death in women of all ages.

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[envisio]

>>>GPUs Deliver Mammogram-like Breast Scans In 20 Minutes<<<<

20 minutes is way to long....you don’t stare at it. It’s too risky. You get a sense of it and then you look away.