I really don't think that I could do my job without IT outsourcing. The world of IT has become far too complex. When I started, we managed 200 terminals. Now, we manage over 7,000 workstations. The software has become more complex and our dependency on IT has grown significantly. |
In certain applications, such as our massive ensemble of climate simulation, we are achieving greater than supercomputer levels of computing power. |
The primary technical challenge has always been in porting the climate model, which is about a million lines of legacy Fortran code developed by hundreds of scientists over the past two decades. |