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I generally don't bring any of this up because I don't think anyone would be interested in this kind of stuff
But...Interesting you mention that! My son is a materials science/chemistry major and has studied this and actually made graphene in a lab. It is a hot topic of research. It is actually pretty easy concept to make as it cleaves itself in half and in half again and again until you get down to almost one molecule thick. He explains it if you take pencil lead on paper and put tape on the lead...then peel it off, half remains on the paper and half on the tape...keep doing that until you get to one molecule thick. Now use that material to etch a chip on to. That is basically the concept but with atomic precision.
The amazing thing about graphene is the almost magical electrical properties but also the incredible thermal properties. Imagine making a chip that runs much much faster without producing heat. laptops running at the unheard of speeds using a watch battery for power and not producing any heat. That is what is coming.
you might be interested in my current project. GPU computing. Trying to get an engineering code to run on a Tesla GPU (2800 cores). Should increase the performance by at least an order of magnitude if I can get it to work. I have worked on large MPP machines and ported a CFD code to them for fluid flow analysis of ship hulls . I want to tinker with a new planing hull design. If I can get this to work I might be able to do multivariable optimization of the design geometry in a realistic time period. I have done this coarsely before but it is pretty hands on and involved. I am more of an engineer than a computer geek. So it will be a struggle for me to get it to work but I will as I am trying to teach myself this new language. (Since my body is nearly shot I should probably try and keep the white-matter active)
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