World Class High Performance Computing Center

I have been asked by a number of people in the last few weeks "What makes a High Performance Computing Center "World-Class""?

I venture that if you asked ten people who are in our industry and you will get ten different answers. The answers will have a number of common themes and use a lot of the same words, but there will also be suttle differences that may or may not have a lot to do with their current place of work.

I am interested in hearing others bloggers definition and thoughts on "World-Class" computing.

MilMor

Blogs

If you are into blogs with some great information here is one that is definitely worth adding to your favorites.

http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/

Jonathan Schwartz is chief executive officer and president of Sun Microsystems, and a member of Sun's board of directors. Jonathan's been an outspoken advocate for open source and for the value of the network as a tool for driving economic, social and political progress.

This blog entry is very specific to the readers of this blog.

http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/date/20070628

MilMor

Working for our Government

For anyone who is interested in contracting with the federal government the following website will be very useful.

http://www.fedbizopps.gov/

MilMor

Technorati

Technorati Profile

High-performance computing: Supercomputing everywhere

For those of you that do not know John West, take a look at a few of his articles. John is definitely a name you will want to remember if you are just getting starting in High End Computing.

http://weblog.infoworld.com/hpc/

http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/08/20/34FEnextbigthing_west_1.html

High End Computing comes to University of Arkansas

For those who think High End Computing and Great College Football can't co-exist on the same campus, need to take a look at this article.

http://www.supercomputingonline.com/article.php?sid=14399

The article reads in part.... demonstrating its position as a national leader in high-performance computing, the University of Arkansas has received an $803,306 equipment grant from the National Science Foundation to purchase and assemble the university's second supercomputer. The new machine will be among the fastest supercomputers in all U.S. academic institutions.

MilMor