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So SGI appears to be relatively weak
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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!
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Sun Compaq/Digital HP and IBM are strong in high end Enterprise system market
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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
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"Gateway" is consistent with clusters as HPCC resource but does not directly address critical resource management issues
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NPAC has a strategy for doing cluster resource management based on commodity software ...
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