That&#x27;s a trip. I agree with you about HPC having much wisdom that isn&#x27;t exploited outside of it. Lots of what I heard from &quot;cloud,&quot; etc had already been done in MPP&#x27;s, etc. They still haven&#x27;t caught up to the field totally and I still plan on resurrecting MPP eventually.<p>A prior discussion here suggests what holds it back is cultures. The HPC people keep to themselves and don&#x27;t try to make anything useful outside the field. The cloud projects act like they&#x27;re the only thing going on. And so on. Bridging the gap may never happen but I always encourage upstarts to dig into the HPC literature on their topics as they might find gold. One of few cases an ACM&#x2F;IEEE fee is worthwhile. ;)<p>Personal example was trying to find a patent-resistant, NUMA architecture to use for security-enhanced SPARC CPU&#x27;s. Stumbled upon the MIT Alewife machine that did NUMA up to 512 nodes using (a) SPARC processor modified for quick context-switching &amp; message passing; (b) a single, custom chip to handle NUMA aspects. Making cheap, COTS hardware NUMA w&#x2F; open design would take one ASIC development using that architecture. Just cuz I studied supercomputing once and remembered to look it up. :)