Most of today was spent adjusting floor tiles and moving around high-performance cluster machines (also called clusters from this point forward) from their old home to a new refridgerated home. This is really the first instance to my knowledge that the College of Engineering as a whole has listened to the wishes of researchers who take advantage of the power of high-performance computing. What’s next? A collaborate effort to provide all departments access to high-performance computing? I won’t get my hopes up.
It annoys me to see universities such as Purdue provide services such as the Rosen Center for High-Performance Computing while WVU, more specifically the College of Engineering, fails to provide this sort of access to departments. It’s not as if this sort of research occurs in Computer Science only. I count at least six different high-performance cluster projects across Computer Science/EE, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and Chemical Engineering. These are just the projects I’m aware of; there could be more!
The possibility does exist that there is an initiative for high-performance computing, but, if so, why haven’t I heard of it and why are these groups not using that service? Why spend your research dollars on building your own cluster when you can use a professionally maintained cluster. I don’t understand the lack of cooperation in some groups especially when there is clear benefit for all parties involved.
On another note, I’ve installed Wordpress for Blackberry, and I’m trying to post something on my blog daily. It’s also appearing on my Facebook as notes, so you should definitely visit the blog and leave comments there.
That is all for tonight.
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