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What’s in a supercomputer? Twenty years ago, the fastest machines in the world were specialty architectures designed by quirky geniuses like Seymour Cray. Today, the field’s name has changed–it’s called HPC, for high-performance computing–but it’s still where the action is. That was definitely the deal Monday at the High Performance on Wall Street conference in New York City.

Since supercomputers are to desktops, or even enterprise blades, as Corvettes are to Ford Tauruses, you might wonder why you should care about them. (Sorry, I can’t resist using the older term, though technically speaking there’s a difference, according to Wikipedia.)

Attention much be paid because they’re a leading indicator of the type of computing technology you’re going to see in the mainstream, in two to three years time. I’ve been covering supercomputers on and off for twenty years, and what I saw at the conference convinced me that the pace of technology transfer is going to accelerate.

Grid has been getting a lot of press for a number of reasons. We like grid because I can get my existing systems to load balance their workload, that one component failure in the chain need not be a show stopper from an end user point of view, but also because with grid I can increase my workload, my potential, I can get the results quicker, being able to price that risk in 20 seconds instead of 40 seconds can put you ahead of the game, can be the difference between revenue generation and not, implementing therefore high performance and grid based solutions around the risk/pricing markets in particular can be very profitable. A great article, do check it out.

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