Paul Schopf of SCS took me out for a test drive in his new navy blue porche boxter over lunch. And we talked about high performance computing at Mason. One thought we both had is how, by pursuing HPC independently (many units doing their own thing), we loose the PR aspects of what we could have, if we combined our purchasing power across units. In otherwords, imagine the joy of telling some job candidate about the X terraflops of computing power that will be available, if s(he) comes to Krasnow.
But then there’s the notion of HPC becoming comoditized. Are we just going to start thinking about computational power as something we get out of a jack?
Discoverers and Discoveries 