The HPCC Dilemma and its Solution

• HPCC has developed good research ideas but cannot implement them as solving computing’s hardest problem with 1 percent of the funding

  • HPCC applications are very complex and use essentially all computer capabilities and also have synchronization and performance constraints from HPCC

• We have learnt to use commodity hardware either

  • partially as in Origin 2000/SP2 with consumer CPU’s but custom network or
  • fully as in PC cluster with fast ethernet/ATM

• Let us do the same with software and design systems with maximum possible commodity software basis

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