Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Tag: TeraGrid
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Cyberinfrastructure: Lots of Room at the Edge
Our fascination with large instruments and massive computing often blinds us to discovery via many instruments at smaller scales.
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Stored Program Computing: Ideas and Individuals Do Change the World
Johnny von Neumann’s draft report on EDVAC and the stored program concept transformed and codified modern digital computing
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NCSA@30: Reflections on the Revolution
My time as NCSA director was exhilarating and exciting, as an incredible team invented the future. That is – and always will be – NCSA’s mission.
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Exascale Software: Just a Few Orders of Magnitude
Extraordinary parallelism, unprecedented data locality and adaptive resilience: these are daunting architecture, system software and application challenges for exascale computing.
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Beyond The Azure Blue
From the first day I arrived at Microsoft, my academic colleagues have been asking me about Microsoft’s strategy for cloud computing and when (or if) there would be public announcements. At our Professional Developers Conference (PDC), Microsoft announced Azure, our cloud computing platform, with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale and manage Internet or…
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Elvis, D.B. and the Red Caddy
Imagine my surprise when I looked up from the pump and saw Elvis at the wheel of a candy red ’69 Caddy Coupe DeVille convertible, parked outside the convenience store. He was lookin’ mighty fine, with one arm draped over the car window and the other on the wheel, harmonizing with a gospel station on…