I recently read a quote from the US secretary of Energy, Steven Chu. He said: “The nation that leads the world in high-performance computing will have an enormous competitive advantage across a broad range of sectors.” I couldn’t agree more, so it was a shame to experience the absence of so many national government laboratories at Supercomputing 2012. Sadly, many of the big national labs pulled out from the show, in part due to federal budget cut-backs, but also as a result of the scandal involving the General Services Administration. Not exactly the recipe for leading...
