You've seen high performance formula one race cars. You've seen high performance Jet aircraft, now it’s time to get into high performance computing. Did you know that according to top500.org x86 processors are winning the race in supercomputing performance? In 1991 the cost for a CRAY supercomputer was over 40million dollars but today for just $4000 you can get the same 10 Gigflops! Who better to give us an in-depth understanding of HPC than Technical Director of the Southampton Regional e-Science Centre. Who recently led the technical procurement for the University of Southampton’s new 324 node supercomputer, which, following his research in this area, will be based on a commodity cluster of PCs. Let's welcome… Dr. Simon Cox!
-Ron
