Intel CTO predicts 3D Web is the Platform of the Future

Intel's CTO Justin Rattner spoke at SC09 Supercomputing Conference in Portland, Oregon last week. In his keynote speech he states "High-performance computing doesn't need a killer app as much as it needs a killer application framework," Rattner said. "It needs a platform in which people can leverage the power of high-performance computing to do just about anything they can imagine."

As reported in Network World: That "killer application framework," Rattner said, is the 3D Web, powered on the back end by cloud technologies and the HPC industry. The 3D Web technologies will not only power virtual worlds we know today like Second Life, but create ways for people to interact with each other and new platforms for businesses to test products, he said.

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