Some Relevant Lessons from HPCC
Software and Algorithms will be more important to GEM than hardware
Hardware is driven by “commodity technology” e.g. use of chips from PC and workstation market
- Detailed hardware architecture irrelevant if one uses software standards such as:
- Fortran, C++, Java Programming Languages
- MPI for Message passing in parallel codes
- Web and CORBA for distributed information and objects
- If you need to a broad class of approaches to earthquake prediction, one cannot beat commercial efforts
- e.g. there isn’t a useful GEM special purpose computer
- You can spend more money and get more powerful machines