Moonshot has become the standard word for a research programme aimed at something that might not work but would be transformative if it did. It's used by corporate research labs, government funding agencies, and philanthropic science funders. Attached to computing it names the ambitious end of the field: quantum, neuromorphic, optical, novel architectures, and anything else … [Read more...] about moonshotcomputing.com
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Batch computing is a real and permanent category. Jobs that run without a person waiting: rendering, simulation, genomics pipelines, financial risk calculations, ETL, model training. It's the workload type that predates interactive computing and never went away. Cloud providers all sell batch services, HPC centres run on the model, and the scheduling software behind it is a … [Read more...] about batchcomputing.com