What Can HPC Learn From the Enterprise IT?

HPC has long been a proving ground of new technologies for enterprise IT, such as Linux clusters and grid. As HPC becomes increasingly pervasive and mission-critical to all kinds of enterprises, it is time learn more from Enterprise IT.  For example, RAS (Reliability, Availability and Scalability) is sorely needed in HPC as its use becomes pervasive.  The availability of applications is a major barrier to HPC growth, yet modern development approaches such as a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) is missing in HPC. While there have been tremendous innovations in HPC, a focus on TCO for production is in order.

In this talk, we will step back and away from specific technologies and look at the overall health of HPC from a production point of view, and highlight some of the key priorities to move the market forward.