I cannot agree with this piece highly enough.
Widespread cloud availability, GPU, etc, has enabled all sorts of weird, wacky,
and _useful_ large-scale technical computing use cases, and arguing about
whether new use case X is "really" HPC has long since lost whatever novelty it
had. I'm pleased to see Jeff Layton using the broader term "Research
Computing"; in my corner of the world I've been pushing for the term Advanced
R&D Computing (ARC) as a catch all for any sort of technical/numerical
computing that requires you to do something "special" (e.g., do something
different than run naive serial code on a desktop). Someone else can probably
come up with a better name, but I actually think that holding on to terms with
existing pretty strong connotations is hurting more than helping at this point.
- Jonathan
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Jonathan Dursi, <[email protected]>
SciNet HPC Consortium, Compute Canada
http://www.SciNetHPC.ca
http://www.ComputeCanada.ca
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