Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience


The U.S. lacks a coherent strategy for developing future high-performance computing systems, ones critical for national security, economic growth, and scientific discovery.

The price of innovation keeps rising, the talent is following the money, and many of the traditional players – companies and countries – are struggling to keep up.

“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things: big data, extreme computing, energy efficiency, and autonomous vehicles.

The brave new world of edge computing and big data has profound implications for the future of high-performance computing. Come to the edge!

Cloud computing is transformational. Yet in public perception, the cloud is more like a fog, a vaguely understood and amorphous thing.

It is past time to reunite the big data, cloud and high-performance computing communities. Each can each learn much from the other.