William Lu
All-In-One or Build-Your–Own? Modernizing Your HPC Management Platform
Post Date: April 26, 2010 @ 4:03 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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Just asking a few pointed questions should help determine which type of HPC management platform is right for a particular HPC scenario.
William Lu is director of HPC product marketing at Platform Computing. He has 20 years of experience in HPC development, consulting and marketing, and holds a PhD in high energy physics.
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