Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Category: Global Competitivensss
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Singapore Biopolis
As Nature and Science have noted, the Biopolis is a part of Singapore’s aggressive plans to establish itself as an international center for biomedical research, with both world-class facilities and international talent.
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HPC: Competitive Advantage
The lack of robust, turnkey tools from independent software vendors (ISVs) is a consequence of the HPC transition from supercomputers based on custom vector processors to large-scale parallelism based on commodity microprocessors. One can trace the rapid technology shift in the demographics of the Top 500 list. Why is this a problem? I’m glad you…
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American Competitiveness and Science Education
Levity aside, each time I am in Asia, I am reminded in so many ways of the accelerating pace of change and the increasingly precarious competitive position of the United States.