Today in Moscow Mark Zuckerberg gave Medvedev a T-shirt with "www.facebook.com/Dmitry.Medvedev"

Before Zuckerberg's visit of today, there was a scandalous Russian article accusing Mark for coming to organize an intensive Russian brain drain into Facebook. Interestingly, this article was written by a head of the largest Russian outsourcing company. However, according to the latest news (in Russian) Mr Zuckerberg had a lunch in McDonald and then a nice meeting with the Russian prime-minister: they discussed copyright laws in the Internet (Mark promised Medvedev that Facebook will always support copyright).

I believe nice meetings in Moscow, copyrights, and brain drain from Russia do not very much depend on each other.

See some English links: 

Zuckerbergscouts for Russian talent as Facebook trails VKontakte      

MarkZuckerberg in Moscow to boost Facebook's Russia presence

Petaflops With NVIDIA in Moscow University

The Russian office of NVIDIA informed that today Moscow Lomonosov University installed graphic processors NVIDIA Tesla™ on its supercomputer (also called Lomonosov) which tranforms it into one of the fastest computers worldwide. 

A hybrid extension of "Lomonosov" includes 1554 graphic processors NVIDIA Tesla X2070 and the same number of 4-core CPU, which provides the system with a pick performance of 1.3 petaflops. Among the projects supported by "Lomonosov" there are  global climate change, mechamisms for formation of galaxies, post-genome medicine, and others.     

Two other Russian examples of supercomputing with NVIDIA. Moscow Keldysh Institute for Applied Math uses 192 processors NVIDIA Tesla C2050 for research in nuclear energy, aviation, and oil production. Nyzhny Novgorod University is the first Russian Research CUDA center which actively uses GPU in biology based on 100 teraflops GPU cluster which in 2012 will be enhanced to 500 teraflops.  

Dassault Systèmes Chooses Restaurant "Pushkin" to Explain What is Life-like Experience

PR agency Fleishman-Hillard Vanguard on behalf of Dassault Systemes Russia invited isicad.ru/net to attend a media breakfast in one of the best Moscow restaurants "Pushkin". The invitation announced that Laurent Couillard, VP Sales EMEA at Dassault Systèmes, will tell about V6, in particular:

• V6 PLM Express for SMB

• Communities and life-like experience with V6

• Success stories

• Alliance of Dassault Systèmes and IBM.

Seems I can be proud to get this invitation since it was likely sent to 5 top CAD/PLM-related Russian language media: among them isicad is the only without-paper edition. The problem is that isicad is based in Novosibirsk, 4 hours by plane from Moscow... That's why I asked my close partner from Moscow - Dmitry Movchan, the director and founder of a publishing house DMK-press, specialized in IT, including a lot of CAD/PLM books, in particular a series "CAD: From A to Z" supported by isicad. Thanks to Dmitry, isicad readers can now take a look at the pictures below and get a flavour of the meeting, restaurant, participants, and perhaps V6:).

Note that I am completely responsible for the comments...

At the picture above, Mr.Laurent Couillard and his intepreter are making reconnaissance.

At last, all is ready and Mr.Couillard can start.

What happened then (16 more photoes), can be found here .

Autodesk Forum-2010 in Moscow: How Many New Gimmicks?

Recent news on Twitter Autodesk_CIS: “We are pleased to announce that this year the Autodesk Forum will take place on September 22-23 in Moscow. Make sure you mark these dates in your diary:)”. As the editor of isicad.ru/isicad.net, I sought further details from Anastasia Morozova, Field Marketing Area Team Manager, Autodesk Russia and CIS.

Аnastasia Мorozova: Yes, now we can confirm that the Autodesk Forum will be on September 22-23 in Moscow. For the first time it is planned to continue for two days. All previous Forums were good but every time us, as the organizers, and participants suffered because one day was only enough to get a cursory view of the problems. The two-day format should help us to make this event interesting and above all practically useful for all our traditional clients – representatives of manufacturers and architecture-and-construction industry. This year for the first time we will have special sections for animators and graphic designers.

Typically Autodesk Forums have all kinds of cool surprises like giving a lift to the attendees by Hummers … … Probably two days will accommodate twice as many cool things as usual?

Certainly, the objective of our Forum is very clear – to deliver useful information and sensations that our clients don’t get in their daily working routine. With Internet popularity it is becoming a more and more difficult task but we are also getting smarter and more inventive.

This year we have a who-o-ole bunch of interesting ideas which we are now working on. From demonstrating hardware technologies and various equipment that they write a lot about but not everybody has had a possibility to see it with one’s own eyes, ask questions to the experts and see if it fits their company, to completely crazy ideas about demonstrating new computer games developed in Autodesk products. I think that for many of our clients it will be interesting to see how someone uses the products, which they employ to visualize their projects, for development of the most popular FPS or air-simulators. And if combined with powerful stereo-effects and state-of-the-art equipment... Actually, it’s better to see this for oneself.

Two full days… You don’t mean that everything will come down to specifics and bigger entertainment? Or you will engage some new formats after all?

New formats definitely will be present. First of all, two days finally give us an opportunity to include many presentations by our clients into the program. Typically, demonstrating already proven user experience is a much expected part of the event. Also, apart from the primary flow of presentations in the main auditorium, we are organizing several additional flows with presentations focused on implementation technology, lessons learnt and product uses, new software – those products that are at the stage of development... There definitely will be a session for programmers – who develop applications for our products. Obviously we plan a series of presentations for educations institutions. Many presentations will be given by our authorized partners. So participants will not only be able to get valuable information but also select a future supplier on the basis of the level of competence shown by the specialists of a particular partner. Certainly there will be special presentations by our partner - HP. This year NVIDIA also has become a Forum partner.

As you understand the Program is not finalized yet. More details can be found in July on our web site.

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