I am in Portland, so no UNH for me. How was the OCP launch? Best -F
On Jul 14, 2014, at 12:33 PM, Kurt L Keville <[email protected]> wrote: > I don’t know if you have been reading the trades lately but HPC is in > trouble. The rate of supercomputer improvement has flattened out, IBM, the > 800 pound gorilla that it once was, appears to be in freefall in this space > and you can expect “negative growth” in traditional system sales for the > foreseeable future… > http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/06/23/breaking-detailed-results-top-500-fastest-supercomputers-list/ > > that is, unless, you want to get off your lazy duff and do something about > it. The OCP HPC launch happens on the 21st at UNH… > http://www.opencompute.org/community/events/ocp-engineering-workshop-university-of-new-hampshire-21-july > not sure if this is quite “hacking” since this is more of an effort to > deregulate some proprietary ideas into the opensource community through an > economy of scale initiative rather than legitimizing off-label repurposing of > COTS… but I have been to a couple of these and there are usually a lot of > good, meaty, breakout sessions… > _______________________________________________ > Hardwarehacking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking _________________________________________ -- "'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge" - Richard Fish (Federico L. Lucifredi) - flucifredi at acm.org - GnuPG 0x4A73884C _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
