I feel great pride and satisfaction today, to announce, that I have made (first?) "free" CBTs / videos of HPCC [High Performance Computing Cluster] in English language and released them (free of cost) on my website: http://www.wbitt.com . This is my first step towards the objective to see “A SuperComputer on every desk!”. And I hope to have more strength and ability to continue serving the community.

The ultimate goal is kind of too big to summarize in words. By sharing these videos (and more), I hope to see more educated, more experienced HPC system administrators / cluster administrators in future. Also, a whole new breed of HPC programmers, as now, they should have a very affordable platform to develop their HPC programs. I also hope to see HPC being utilized in almost all fields of life. In my opinion, industry giants have somehow, made HPC, sort of an “un-touchable” technology for all, but for a very few. The brains and thoughts are also locked in a sense that super computing can only be used to make nuclear weapons, or to launch satellites, etc, etc. ( I know scientific / health uses as well). I intend to have this barrier removed. Once every one will be using this technology, I am sure, people will find other uses as well, trickling all the way down to various aspects of our daily lives. I am sure that, just as internet was once un-heard of, has now become an integral part of our lives, supercomputing will also become the same. Time will tell.

Please feel free to refer/distribute these videos to anyone. They are for the community.

Check the downloads page for the file links.

Muhammad Kamran Azeem
26 April 2009

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