Saturday November 11, 2006
SuperComputing '06 - Tampa Florida
My initial thinking about HPC (High Performance Computing) was a little
different, all geek stuff ! It still is. Have been interacting
indirectly through some of our cool customer facing engineers in the
last few quarters where we were working on setting up System Manager in
some of the bigger envionments, the fact had however not sunk in till
as recent as a few weeks back. The realization was a satisfying one !
The math of large number has always fascinated me, scale teaches you
one thing among many others, which is, "designing for scalability can
not be an afterthought". The need for scalability has to be there right
from inception and, this is what Sun is about. Starting from Operating
System Solaris all the way down to the processor SPARC (and everything
in between) you can see scalability. Not content with what's there,
engineers at Sun have pushed the envelope in all direction from scaling
Processors (CMT) to connecting multiple systems (GRID) and again
everything in between. Listening to some of our senior executives and
correlating the work we are doing at System Manager and its relevance
in HPC space has been enlightneing on a Saturday (Yes its a weekend but
I'm enjoying listening to all the good stuff). I am already looking
forward towards the session on Sunday and beyond...
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Posted at 08:33PM Nov 11, 2006 by adikhit in General | Comments[0]
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