Intel CTO: Virtual Worlds Tech to Save Industry

Intel CTO Justin Rattner says the technologies that go into the creation of many virtual worlds -- ones that create ways for people to interact with each other and new platforms for businesses to test products -- are ultimately going to "save" the high-performance computing industry "from its current state of financial stagnation." Speaking at the SC09 supercomputing conference last week, Rattner said "high-performance computing doesn't need a killer app as much as it needs a killer application framework." He added: "It needs a platform in which people can leverage the power of high-performance computing to do just about anything they can imagine…In my opinion there is nothing more important to the long-term health of the HPC industry than the development and widespread use of 3D web technologies."  [via NetworkWorld.com]