On 14 Apr 2013, at 10:01, Jonathan Dursi wrote: > I cannot agree with this piece highly enough. > > Widespread cloud availability, GPU, etc, has enabled all sorts of weird, > wacky, and _useful_ large-scale technical computing use cases, and arguing > about whether new use case X is "really" HPC has long since lost whatever > novelty it had. I'm pleased to see Jeff Layton using the broader term > "Research Computing"; in my corner of the world I've been pushing for the > term Advanced R&D Computing (ARC) as a catch all for any sort of > technical/numerical computing that requires you to do something "special" > (e.g., do something different than run naive serial code on a desktop). > Someone else can probably come up with a better name, but I actually think > that holding on to terms with existing pretty strong connotations is hurting > more than helping at this point.
I've taken to saying I work in "Computing" as a distinct field from "IT". The difference being that Computing is about using computers for calculations/analytics rather than as a tool for doing something else. Ashley, _______________________________________________ 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
