HPC - High End into the Mainstream

Abstract: Processor performance continues with its historical climb, bringing an ever increasing performance per cost ratio to computing platforms.  Technology and capabilities which were once exclusively in the hands of the High Performance Computing community will now become available to a broader set of the world's population.  The computing possibilities this will release are broad - from bringing HPC to previously computing-challenged activities, to enabling each college student to have their own HPC system. Technologies supporting this HPC proliferation will be discussed, as will a view into some of the future usage models.