And Michael Di Domenico writes: > seems to me [NSF] needs to get back into building the HPC community of > PEOPLE rather then building hero machines at six or seven > installations across the us.
Note that many recent calls include community-building aspects, so I believe that is recognized. The NSF also is looking for applications that are not well-served by the current vendor solutions. IMHO, those solutions are trending towards being opaque boxes or "local clouds", where power & environmental are managed locally but the system management could well be outsourced (e.g. a typical cluster, a BlueGene, a Cray XC, etc.). If the major computing centers figure out data aspects, then there's one fewer reason for those black boxes even to be distributed. When system management is mostly automated, and we all know it could be if we stop standing on each others' toes, people managing the hardware really don't learn anything. Think Google in Lenoir. But for *new* platforms... That's where you need to distribute the expected chance of failure across many smaller locations and need to build off their expertise... _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
