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Watching some youtube videos on supercomputing is always a good way to follow the current trends.
Most of our client base uses C# for computing large scale calculation applications. But for the true heavy-duty computations there is really no alternative to C++ on Linux, including from a career perspective. So you will probably delve into g++ and possibly also clang for the extra debugging messages.
A solid understanding of how databases operate and a ready knowledge of how database performance can be increased is also required.
Finally, if you have an nVidia GPU card, there is CUDA for parallelising your application. Else - going really high end - you may have a coprocessor from Intel, such as the Xeon Phi. That in turn requires its own Intel compiler / debugger, which also readily supports parallelism.

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GLXQUERYVERSION(3G)						   OpenGL Manual					       GLXQUERYVERSION(3G)

NAME

       glXQueryVersion - return the version numbers of the GLX extension

C SPECIFICATION

       Bool glXQueryVersion(Display * dpy, int * major, int * minor);

PARAMETERS

       dpy
	   Specifies the connection to the X server.

       major
	   Returns the major version number of the GLX server extension.

       minor
	   Returns the minor version number of the GLX server extension.

DESCRIPTION

       glXQueryVersion returns the major and minor version numbers of the GLX extension implemented by the server associated with connection dpy.
       Implementations with the same major version number are upward compatible, meaning that the implementation with the higher minor number is a
       superset of the version with the lower minor number.

       major and minor do not return values if they are specified as NULL.

ERRORS

       glXQueryVersion returns False if it fails, True otherwise.

       major and minor are not updated when False is returned.

SEE ALSO

       glXQueryExtension()

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 1991-2006 Silicon Graphics, Inc. This document is licensed under the SGI Free Software B License. For details, see
       http://oss.sgi.com/projects/FreeB/.

AUTHORS

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