HPCwire

The raw compute power of HPC clusters continues to grow, driven by new parallel technologies such as many-core CPUs, GPUs, and the Xeon Phi. It is well known that writing applications to exploit massive parallelism is a significant challenge to the growth of HPC. Another challenge, which is not as widely discussed, is the increasing difficulty of managing HPC clusters. The way we approach the management and administration of high performance computing clusters is slowly strangling the field of HPC. To read further, please visit http://www.hpcwire.com/2014/05/20/outdated-infrastructure-will-cripple-hpc/.