CNN Money’s HPCS coverage emphasizes usability

I have only been peripherally keeping up with what’s going on inside the HPCS program at DARPA, but I was surprised at how strongly this story at CNN slants making supercomputers easier to use as the “point” of the recent IBM/Cray announcement.

This is a good thing, though. As “universal intellectual amplifiers” (Dan Reed’s phrase, not mine) that can have impact in all the research we do, making supercomputers easier to use is one of the most important things we can do.