Warp speed: How GPUs can enable large-scale healthcare enterprise applications

McKinsey October 1, 2021
Anne Kayem, Jannik Podlesny, Stephen Simpson, and Henning Soller

Graphical processing units have the potential to be game changers, but healthcare companies must understand their use cases.

As data sets get larger and more complex, traditional data-processing methods are increasingly unable to deliver insights in a timely fashion. The world at the edge of a global pandemic is a timely example: the analysis of millions of medical records—including disease, treatment, and genomic information—could yield critical insights for doctors, researchers, and pharma companies that are exploring novel vaccine opportunities. Yet this highly complex task frequently overwhelms traditional computing.

In the healthcare industry, processing tens of millions of records to derive inferences and extract insights has been nearly impossible to date. With the further proliferation of data privacy and data localization,...

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