Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: OSC
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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…