In the Moscow State University, November 25 presentation most powerful supercomputer in Russia and Eastern Europe, said in a press release of the T platform, which has created this platform. The presentation was attended by President Dmitry Medvedev.

Peak performance supercomputer Lomynosiv "reach 420 teraflops, and real - 350 teraflops. Supercomputer takes 12 place in the World Ranking Top500. At MSU the new system will deal with the calculation, which lacks the power of other supercomputers University.

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Company Intel has announced that the first version of a discrete graphics card Larrabee, previously scheduled for release in 2010, see light only as a platform for software development, reports Cnet. On the date of issuance of the platform, as well as on prospects of Larrabee, the company will present only in the new year.

The President said the analysis of Jon Peddie Research, Intel solution failed to set dates to achieve competitive performance. For example, serial AMD video showing the performance close to 5 teraflops, while Larrabee last presentation showed only 1 teraflops.

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Employees in the Intel Research Laboratory Pittsburgh (USA) believes that by 2020 the need for a computer keyboard and mouse no longer as open documents, enter text and surf the Internet can be thought by forcibly implanted in the brain chip.

For this purpose, as writes GZT.ru, scientists are trying to find ways to read hvylevu brain activity and convert it to a variety of devices - mobile phones, televisions, computers and so signaling the brain carried out by special sensors implanted in the bark of the brain .

To this end, Intel studying blood flow changes in different brain regions depending on word of a man thinks or what the image is trying to present. Typically, the brains of different people are equally sensitive to the same words or images. For example, if two people see a bear or hear him growl, neuronal activity chart for them will be identichn ymi.

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