by Douglas Eadline, Ph.D., Linux Magazine
Commodity hardware is the norm in HPC. What about commodity software?
“This week I want to add an excellent piece by Bill Gropp on Commodity Software. For those that don’t know, Bill and his crew at Argonne National Lab, have brought us the likes of MPICH, MPICH2, and PVFS2. In 2007, Bill left Argonne to join the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as the Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor in the Department of Computer Science.”
“My favorite part of Bill’s discussion is the following: Part of the solution is to emphasize commodity software. That is, software that is written to an agreed upon standard. Applications that use commodity software can pick and choose their software platform in much the same way that commodity hardware makes it possible to pick and choose the hardware platform. But there is danger here too. If we insist on the current set of standards, we stifle innovation and prevent the development of better standards.”
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