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Foil 4 HPCC Dilemma

From Integration of Scientific and Technical Computing with Enterprise Information Systems: Gateway and IPSE ASC Dayton Ohio Invited Presentation -- October 29 98. by Geoffrey C. Fox


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/Workstation cluster with fast Ethernet/ATM but here nobody knows how to use such systems in production -- this is the software side of commodity hardware
Users want more attractive "problem solving environments" insulated from arcane changing HPCC backend



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