Collaboration in HPC: Watch This Space

Over thirty years ago, at Supercomputing Conference 1993, the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard was put forward. It was developed by over 60 people from 40 organisations. All working together to come up with a standard whose impact on scientific and research computing it would be hard to overstate.

But I’m not here to bore you with the details of MPI. No, I’ll do that in a chapter of the intro to supercomputing book instead. Right now, I want to talk about what seems like the impossible task of 40 different organisations working together to define the standard.

I’ll admit I haven’t exactly researched it in depth, but I can’ think of a single example in recent history where we have seen this level of collaboration. Please do sounds off in the comments and correct me if I’m wrong though.

Modern capitalism is too busy pitting us off against one another and building trillion dollar market cap empires.

Time to change that. Watch this space.

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