Surprisingly little came out of this meeting. We set a couple of deadlines to update the wiki and that was about it... I will report back when the wiki is updated.
-----Original Message----- From: Federico Lucifredi [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 9:00 PM To: Kurt L Keville Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [HH] Your chance to determine the future of HPC... 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-fa > stest-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-u > niversity-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
