Driven by the rapid pace of consumer product development, the so-called post-PC world is now moving at a much faster pace than the traditional high-end scientific computing markets.
Will the tools to take advantage of multicore chips come from a trickle-down of high-end scientific computing techniques, the extension of existing programming languages or the spread of previously obscure languages, driven by the needs of web developers?
So, what do video-game graphics have in common with high-end scientific computing?
Distributed systems are among the main cost-effective and expandable platforms for high-end scientific computing.
The challenge may associated with the ways to organize these capabilities to support high-end scientific work to create environments that people want to spend time in and that encourage experimentation and growth.
However, I believe this project – which mixes an optical drive with an old mouse to create god knows what – is essentially a very high end teledildonics rig disguised as a scientific experiment.
Scientific applications running on high end computing (HEC) platforms can generate large volumes of output [1].
"They want everything high end".
If the high end of the I.P.O.
It really validates the high end.
