Citation
(2011), "Thank the gamers", International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Vol. 60 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijppm.2011.07960dab.004
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2011, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Thank the gamers
Article Type: News From: International Journal of Productivity and Performance Management, Volume 60, Issue 4
The Chinese National University of Defense Technology recently announced that it had created the World’s fastest supercomputer, Tianhe-1A, which clocks in at 2.5 petaflops (or 2,500 trillion operations) per second.
Typical technology story […] not quite.
Powering the Tianhe-1A are some three million processing cores from Nvidia, the Silicon Valley company that has sold 100 of millions of graphics chips for videogames. That is right – every time someone fires up a videogame like Call of Duty or World of Warcraft, the state of the art in technology advances. Thank goodness for geeks.