On Mon, Nov 26, 2018 at 9:50 PM Gerald Henriksen <ghenr...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 16:26:42 +0100, you wrote: > If on premise HPC doesn't change to reflect the way the software is > developed today then the users will in the future prefer cloud HPC. > > I guess it is a brave new world for on premise HPC as far as that the > users now, and likely more in the future, will have alternatives thus > forcing the on premise HPC to "compete" in order to survive.
this seems a bit too stringent of a statement for me. i don't dismiss or disagree with your premise, but i don't entirely agree that HPC "must" change in order to compete. We've all heard this kind of stuff in the past if x doesn't change y will take over the world! I'm sure we could come up with a heck of a list. there is, and i believe will always be, a large percentage of the "HPC" population that doesn't get counted on the Top500 list and will not or can not use the cloud. i also believe these are two separate issues. in my opinion, how code is developed shouldn't really have anything to do with how an HPC resource is run. having said that however, i suspect in a few years there's going to be an "HPC Code" revolution. The generic code base is getting too complicated, (ie look at the mess openmpi has become) --- "It's a machine, Schroeder. It doesn't get pissed off. It doesn't get happy, it doesn't get sad, it doesn't laugh at your jokes. It just runs programs." (Newton Crosby, 1986) _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf