The Computing Computing Consortium weblog is carrying an opinion piece this week from David Patterson, Professor in Computer Science at UC Berkeley, on why we need more government funding in multicore research.
You can read it here.
…today’s situation is clear: HPC is struggling with reliability at scale. Well over 10 years ago, Google proved that commodity hardware was both cheaper and more effective for hyperscale processing when controlled by software-defined systems, yet the HPC market persists with its old-school, hardware-based paradigm. Perhaps this is due to prevailing industry momentum or working within the collective comfort zone of established practices. Either way, hardware-centric approaches to storage resiliency need to go.
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