Vicki Lockhart

It’s easy to be distracted by news from the US, China, and now the EU on the state of various exascale projects, but behind the vinyl-wrapped cabinets and well-groomed sales execs are an army of Excel-wielding PMO and accountancy staff trying desperately to keep projects on-time and on-budget. Applying the same level of scrutiny once … Read more

Here, we Look ahead to 2018 – and specifically what the future has in store for some of the major HPC suppliers… Ready Player One The widely-praised Ryzen CPU release saw AMD re-enter the consumer CPU market as a strong competitor to Intel, and perhaps even the front-runner where cost optimisation is a more important … Read more

HPC, or High Performance Computing, is, somewhat reassuringly, exactly what it sounds like. Computers are, at their core, machines that we use to solve problems. They can range in size and simplicity from that of a pocket calculator, to a smartphone, to a desktop, all the way up to behemoths that take up entire warehouses, … Read more

The next time you are at one of the industry’s get-togethers try asking your colleagues if they have delivered any projects on time/budget recently. When they assure you that their projects are always delivered on time and to budget probe a bit deeper (possibly involving beer!), “Was that the timetable/budget initially agreed with the sponsor/budget … Read more