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Change bursts from the


HPC crystal


ball


Andrew Jones looks ahead at what 2016 has


in store for HPC and finds people, not technology, to be the most important issue


T 20 SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING WORLD


he world of high-performance computing (HPC) is bubbling. Years of hardware deployments dominated by similar solutions


are giving way to a broader spectrum of choices. Fundamental issues that have been mostly ignored, but which have been starkly obvious to anyone who cared to look, are now grabbing the community’s attention: (lack of) diversity; the ticking soſtware debt; and soſtware careers. Giants of the industry, such as Intel and IBM, are shuffling to


new positions. Different usage models are winning acceptance, even from hardened HPC folk, including the much-hyped cloud and the possibility of something other than ‘Fortran+MPI’. So, with all this bubbling away, what can we foresee for HPC in 2016?


Real choices in hardware For many years now, the majority of HPC systems have been based on x86 compute nodes (most commonly featuring two


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