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Foil 49 Some of the Teams were Imbalanced in Research v Infrastructure Expertise

From Remarks on Parallel Computing and HPCC Education Ohio Supercomputer Center Workshop -- January 24 1997. by Geoffrey C. Fox *

Careful review of qualifications of teams to ensure they have appropriate mix of both professionals and researchers at leading edge of HPC research.
Whether one adopts either a narrow or broad view of HPC, the field is undoubtedly changing very rapidly with critical new developments both in industry and academia.
Even pure deployment or training programmes need to be cognizant of the latest developments and some of NTI activities were handicapped by lacking such expertise on the implementation team.
Further some of the other projects were largely research based and lacked necessary professional infrastructure development expertise.
I recommend that JISC carefully review overall qualifications of its proposal teams.



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