Only qualifi ed applicants need apply
Recruiting the right person for a job is never easy, but fi nding the skills necessary for the HPC sector can be a particularly challenging task. Industry professionals offer their thoughts
research vice president, high performance computing
constrained by the shortage of qualifi ed personnel. In 2010, the Washington DC- based Council on Competitiveness and the US Department of Energy hired IDC to investigate this situation on a worldwide basis. Key fi ndings of the resultant Study on
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t IDC HPC User Forum meetings and HPC conferences around the world, we repeatedly hear HPC leaders say their growth plans were
Steve Conway, IDC
the Talent and Skill Set Issues Impacting HPC were as follows: There is a serious shortage of qualifi ed
candidates for HPC positions today. Nearly all (93 per cent) of HPC centres said it is
related to the post-Cold War period of slowdown in the worldwide HPC market (c. 1990-2001) and the HPC industry’s failure to shed the ‘old technology’ image it acquired during that period – while internet, PC and gaming ventures seized the ‘new technology’ label. Hardest to fi nd are scientists with HPC capabilities, parallel programmers, algorithm developers, and system administrators with high-end computing
HARDEST TO FIND ARE SCIENTISTS WITH HPC CAPABILITIES,
PARALLEL PROGRAMMERS, ALGORITHM DEVELOPERS AND SYSTEM ADMINISTRATORS WITH HIGH-END COMPUTING EXPERIENCE
‘somewhat hard’ or ‘very hard’ to hire staff with the requisite skills. This shortage spans the government, university and industrial sectors and is global in scope. It is ultimately
experience. The skills most badly needed today include a combined understanding of a scientifi c discipline and computational science and/or computer science.
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