I filled out this http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/05/high_end_servers_hpc_barometer_survey/ yesterday while I was waiting for something to finish compiling. I must remember to check the results when I am back from SC09. How co-incidental is this survey, seeing that SC09 is on in a week's time. I will be talking to vendors about both storage and compute seeing that we are probably going to be procuring yet another HPC machine for work, I certainly hope more vendors are more clued in on the Irish/EU market than in the past. It's also a shame that Si-Cortex went bust they made some pretty cool kit. Anyway I've previously blogged about How not to build a High Performance Computer, perhaps I should also put up a post on How I would build a High Performance Computer. I would imagine that every HPC sysadmin type person would have their own ideas on how to do it, which is probably why I made a list of things not to do instead of things to do.