Along the lines of interesting - but not particularly surprising - trends in the industry, we notice that the NCSA has recently endorsed the continuing evolution of HPC workloads towards a Linux base.
Check out the NCSA article titled: "Linux selected as operating system for Blue Waters".
This is particularly encouraging for not only the operating system and in our case the POWER7 platform, but also for the various software stack products that are being developed, improved, enhanced, and deployed in high-demand HPC environments across many industries.
Massive HPC clusters on the scale of projects like Blue Waters are exciting just looking at all of the technologies being worked on. There's a nice Blue Waters project newsletter available which shows the breadth of activities happening around this project.
One of our real-life challenges is to improve the whole food-chain of software products which enable easier deployment of HPC applications on the Linux base and the POWER7 platform. Collaborative projects like the Blue BioU project can provide an expanding community of Linux HPC users access to open-source based POWER7 clusters.
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