[FRIAM] FW: Distribution / Parallelization of ABM's

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Douglas Roberts wrote:
> In other words, it will not be a general-purpose machine; rather, it 
> will require specially coded applications to take advantage of it.  
> [..]  Finally, if previous experience with experimental new HPC 
> hardware at LANL is any judge, "Roadrunner" has a bumpy road ahead of 
> it before it becomes a productive resource.
These are not disadvantages, but opportunities!

> All of the Teragrid supercomputer centers (NCAR, NCSA, SDSC, PSC, 
> ORNL, Purdue, Indiana, TACC, and UC/ANL) have large queues of jobs 
> waiting to run on their available resources.  I suspect the need for 
> HPC cycles that are being provided by these centers will not go away 
> any time soon. 
I was just teasing..