Simon Branford, who studied high performance computing with me in Reading and is now a PhD student there, posted a link to the list of the world’s Top 500 Supercomputers. The computer they have in Reading ranked number 36 and is the fastest academic computer in the UK.

On a related, yet slightly ridiculous note, Computer World recently published a list of The top 10 dead (or dying) computer skills (via Kottke). Up there in 6th place they put C-programming:

C++ and C Sharp are still alive and kicking, but try to find a basic C-only programmer today, and you’ll likely find a guy that’s unemployed and/or training for a new skill.

C is dead (or dying)! Who’s going to break the bad news to Linus, Guido and Matz?

If you want to utilize any of the top 500 supercomputers for some hard-core number crunching, you will probably stick with C.

Here’s another tip: If you find a programmer who knows only one programming language, don’t hire him.

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