[HH] Your chance to determine the future of HPC...

[Kurt L Keville]

Surprisingly little came out of this meeting. We set a couple of deadlines to update the wiki and that was about it... I will report back when the wiki is updated.

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From: Federico Lucifredi [mailto:flucifredi at acm.org] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 9:00 PM
To: Kurt L Keville
Cc: hardwarehacking at blu.org
Subject: Re: [HH] Your chance to determine the future of HPC...

I am in Portland, so no UNH for me.  How was the OCP launch?

Best -F


On Jul 14, 2014, at 12:33 PM, Kurt L Keville <kkeville at mit.edu> wrote:

> I don't know if you have been reading the trades lately but HPC is in 
> trouble. The rate of supercomputer improvement has flattened out, IBM, 
> the 800 pound gorilla that it once was, appears to be in freefall in 
> this space and  you can expect "negative growth" in traditional system 
> sales for the foreseeable future... 
> http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/06/23/breaking-detailed-results-top-500-fa
> stest-supercomputers-list/
>  
> that is, unless, you want to get off your lazy duff and do something 
> about it. The OCP HPC launch happens on the 21st at UNH... 
> http://www.opencompute.org/community/events/ocp-engineering-workshop-u
> niversity-of-new-hampshire-21-july
> not sure if this is quite "hacking" since this is more of an effort to 
> deregulate some proprietary ideas into the opensource community 
> through an economy of scale initiative rather than legitimizing 
> off-label repurposing of COTS... but I have been to a couple of these 
> and there are usually a lot of good, meaty, breakout sessions... 
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