Speed and scale are key to success in business today, yet combinational optimisation problems can often prove a stumbling block for organisations trying to achieve such levels of operational efficiency. These problems are economically valuable but computationally hard to solve, causing stumbling blocks across a number of different sectors.
Even the brute force of supercomputers is impractical when added variables increase the complexity of a question exponentially. As the scale of any issue grows larger, the total number of possible combinations grows exponentially and determining optimal combinations - the ones with maximum intended effect - becomes increasingly difficult.
This combinatorial explosion is what makes these problems notoriously difficult to solve.
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TOKYO - Toshiba Corporation (TOKYO: 6502), the industry leader in solutions for large-scale optimization problems, today announced a scale-out technology that minimizes hardware limitations, an evolution of its optimization computer, the Simulation Bifurcation Machine (SBM), that supports continued increases in computing speed and scale. Toshiba expects the new SBM to be a game changer for real-world problems that require large-scale, high-speed and low-latency, such as simultaneous financial transactions involving large numbers of stock, and complex control of multiple robots. The research results were published in
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