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I saw this post over at ClusterMonkey. It's about a new training program at Georgetown's Advanced Research Computing that is intended to train people to be system administrators for HPC systems. I think this is a good idea. There is enough difference between running general purpose systems and HPC systems, and a lot of the tuning can be quite different, so preparing people for this particular kind of specialization is well due.

For my first blog entry I'd like to take the time to introduce myself. My name is Chris Smith, and I'm a product architect at Platform Computing. What does this really mean? I spend time looking at what sorts of problems people are trying to address in the Grid and HPC community, and I try to figure out how to either apply Platform's technologies to solve those problems, or look at new technologies that can be used with Platform's technologies and know how to solve the problem.

I also ...