Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Author: Dan Reed
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HPC and Climate Change: Senate Hearing
On Thursday, May 8, I testified to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Technology. The full committee hearing was on improving the “Capacity of U.S. Climate Modeling for Decision Makers and End-Users.” The other members of the hearing panel were Jim Hack and I represented the computing and computational science issues, and the…
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Eudora, You Got the Love?
One summer night when I was about twelve years old, I sat watching the Dick Cavett Show on our old black and white television, the small town boy’s version of Plato’s Cave. Dick was a thoughtful and insightful interviewer, and he hosted a diverse and eclectic set of guests, from Salvador Dali to Groucho Marx.…
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HPC Procurements and NRE
In the current issue of HPCWire, John West has some thoughtful comments on the HPC procurement process. In an article entitled, “HPC Innovation in the Era of ‘Good Enough’,” he analyzes the competitive pressures on vendors and procurements and the small margins available to fund non-recurring engineering costs (i.e., vendor research and development).
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Random Musings
Like many of you, I give lots of public (and not so public) presentations, on a variety of topics. A couple of those were recently captured and placed on the web.
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Salishan, Exascale and Heterogeneous Multicore
This year, Adolfy Hoisie (LANL) asked me to give the after dinner presentation, which is normally the evening of the second day. An after dinner talk is always fraught with danger, as the desired attributes are brevity, humor, brevity and insight. Oh, and did I mention brevity? Such events are especially challenging when the after…
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Reflections on Tibet
I have been following the recent news about Tibet with great sadness and thought it appropriate to comment on my experiences last summer.