Rich Brueckner from insideHPC presented this talk at the Switzerland HPC Conferene. "While High Performance Computing has gone through dramatic changes since Seymour Cray created the supercomputer industry in the 1970's, misnomers, myths, and Alternative Facts have established themselves in the hive mind of the HPX community. In this session, Rich will turn the industry on its ear and reveal the whole truth in the service of outright parody." Watch the video: http://wp.me/p3RLHQ-gH5 Learn more: http://insidehpc.com and http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2017/swiss-workshop/agenda.php Sign up for our insideHPC Newsletter: http://insidehpc.com/newsletter

1. 10 Things You’re Wrong About
in HPC

2. Rich Brueckner
Day Job: Editor of insideHPC
• 30 Years in Supercomputing
• Seven years at insideHPC
• 14,000 News Posts
• 20,000 Tweets
• 139 Radio Free HPC Podcasts
• 2666 HPC Videos on YouTube
• Named Top20 Big Data Influencers by Forbes
• Wearing a Red Hat since 2003

3. Not the Smartest Guy in the Room

4. You’re Wrong About…
Linpack

5. You’re Wrong About…
Linpack

6. You’re Wrong About:
Thomas Schulthess
Thomas Schulthess
Director of CSCS

7. You’re Wrong About:
Thomas Schulthess
Thomas Schulthess
Director of CSCS
He’s Hedging his Bets
on HPC!

8. You’re Wrong About:
“The Top500 represents
the fastest machines on
Earth.”

9. You’re Wrong About:
“The USA has lost its
Leadership in Global
Supercomputing.”

10. You’re Wrong About:
Separated at Birth?
Dan Olds, OrionX Dan Stanzione, TACC

11. SHAMELESS PLUG:
“The Best Podcast
You’re Not Listening to.”
radiofreehpc.com

12. You’re Wrong About:
“The ARM
architecture/instruction set
is inherently more energy
efficient than x86, etc.”

13. You’re Wrong About:
Separated at Birth?
Addison Snell
Intersect360 Research
Tom Cruise
Actor

14. You’re Wrong About:
“Seymour Cray used to build a sailboat
in his basement every winter and then
burn it in the Springtime.”
Seymour Cray

15. You’re Wrong About:
Seymour Cray used to build a sailboat
in his basement every winter and then
burn it in the Springtime.
Seymour Cray SGI Business Plan

16. You’re Wrong About:
“Readers only need one
news source for HPC.”

17. You’re Wrong About:
“Your Job”