Russia building 10-petaflop supercomputer
T-Platforms, a Moscow-based tech company that is behind some of that nation's largest systems, is building a 10-petaflop supercomputer for M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, the company said this week.
Nvidia: Gaming systems to reach 'tens of teraflops' by 2019
Graphics processor maker Nvidia expects gaming systems will reach a performance of "tens of teraflops" by the end of the decade, and will be capable of displaying real-time visuals as good as the pre-rendered cut scenes found in games today, according to company CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.
IT's most wanted: Mainframe programmers
As students study other technologies, vendors try to develop new talent and offer tools to fill the gap for these critical systems