Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: Intel
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American Competitiveness: IT and HPC Futures – Follow the Money and the Talent
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.
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U.S. House of Representatives Hearing on High-Performance Computing
High-performance computing (HPC) is unique among scientific instruments, distinguished by its universality as an intellectual amplifier.
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The IT Ecosystem and Global Competitiveness
I recently chaired a U.S. National Academies study on the issues surrounding the end of Dennard scaling and its implications for U.S. industry, defense capabilities and national security. The report, The New Global Ecosystem in Advanced Computing: Implications for U.S. Competitiveness and National Security, was just released. It is a cautionary tale about the Gordian…
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Reflections on SC08
“Cloud” was undoubtedly the buzz word of the conference. Like the word Grid in the past, cloud is now a tabula rasa on which research groups and companies are projecting their own definitions and spins. I was also pleased that HPCWire awarded its Editor’s Choice Award for best industry/government collaboration to the Microsoft/Intel Universal Parallel…
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SC: The Family Gathering
It’s “supercomputing week,” which means that almost everyone who can spell HPC and who can walk, drive, swim or fly will be in Austin, Texas during the week of November 16 for SC08. In short, it’s the place to see and be seen, or perhaps not to be seen if you are spending all of…
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ManyCore: Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba
As I write this, I am attending the ETH LASER summer school on concurrency, which is being held on the island of Elba. As I prepare to deliver six lectures on multicore and cloud computing, the geographic irony of grand ambition, hubris and ignominious defeat is not lost on me. We have been struggling for…