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.

It seems axiomatic that technology strategy must include – drumroll please – both technology and strategy. It is all about the right ideas at the right times. We live in a world of exponential technology change, and understanding when quantitative technical change begets qualitative strategic and policy change is the essence of innovation.

Multicore designs are forcing us to face an ugly truth, namely that we cannot continue to hide parallelism from the software designer.

I believe RENCI can provide the technological infrastructure and expertise that are vital for making breakthrough discoveries, at UNC Chapel Hill, in North Carolina and across the United States.