Glenn's article is good and hits on many topics correctly (of which i've seen, having sat on the vendor side of NSF proposals in a former life). However I'm a little concerned by what i perceive of his attitude towards stripping funding from centers that don't have the technical prowess to run an HPC resources.
NSF's goal is to further science. stripping funding, i don't believe is the correct solution. if a center isn't keeping up or doesn't have the skills from the start, there should be a mentor put in place from one of the other bigger centers. stripping funding is only going to shrink the pool of knowledge to a few key installations around the US, which probably isn't the best way to spread knowledge. but i do concur there is a point where the NSF would probably/already has spread itself too thin seems to me NFS needs to get back into building the HPC community of PEOPLE rather then building hero machines at six or seven installations across the us. just my 2 cents... On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Prentice Bisbal <[email protected]> wrote: > Glenn Lockwood has written another great blog post. This one is a critique > of the National Academies future directions for the NSF interim report. I > haven't read the actual report yet, but I read Glenn's post and agree with > it 100%. > > http://glennklockwood.blogspot.com/2015/01/thoughts-on-nsf-future-directions.html > > My apologies to Chris Samuels and others not affected by NSF funding. > > -- > Prentice Bisbal > Manager of Information Technology > Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) > Rutgers University > http://rdi2.rutgers.edu > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
