Will there be any HPCC Vendors in 2 years?
So SGI appears to be relatively weak
IBM is not obviously committed to HPCC and indeed not clear if in country’s best interest that they should -- we want IBM to remain globally competitive!
Sun Compaq/Digital HP and IBM are strong in high end Enterprise system market
Not clear if current HPCC systems will have a follow-on and as a backup, somebody (or some group of concerned supercomputer centers) should urgently investigate management of large clusters as a HPCC resource
“Gateway” is consistent with clusters as HPCC resource but does not directly address critical resource management issues
- NPAC has a strategy for doing cluster resource management based on commodity software ...