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• Kishi Malhotra

Thinking about HPC Infrastructure

by kishi on December 01, 2006

I started the first HPC blog (See “previous blog“) with an understanding that HPC is an area where there has been a surge of activity from a development/investment standpoint. So after getting a basic understanding behind the importance of why HPC matters, the next logical step that needed uncovering was “How to think” about HPC Infrastructure and tap into the “wisdom” behind managing it...... more

• Friday, December 01, 2006
• in: Community
• kishi

Overloading 'Clusters'

by Frank Chism on October 20, 2006

I work in the cluster business. I can tell you that all too often I have felt like Alice trying to hold a conversation with Humpty Dumpty in Looking Glass Land. This usually occurs when I’m talking to someone new to cluster computing or someone who comes from a different tread of the industry than I do. My roots are in a thread that used number crunching to mean serious floating point arithmetic done... more

• Friday, October 20, 2006
• in: Community
• Frank Chism