It makes one
think happily that after you've lived a few years that
what you've done is worthwhile. Because otherwise it
just gets taken away and thrown out or abandoned or, at
the very least, you no longer have any relation to it.
It's like losing a bit of your life."
St. Ignucius
The Maui High Performance Computing Center is located
in a single-story building in the dusty red hills just
above the town of Kihei. Framed by million-dollar views
and the multimillion dollar real estate of the
Silversword Golf Course, the center seems like the
ultimate scientific boondoggle. Far from the boxy,
sterile confines of Tech Square or even the sprawling
research metropolises of Argonne, Illinois and Los
Alamos, New Mexico, the MHPCC seems like the kind of
place where scientists spend more time on their tans
than their post-doctoral research projects.
The image is only half true. Although researchers at
the MHPCC do take advantage of the local recreational
opportunities, they also take their work seriously.
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