TechWorld: If high-performance computing is becoming a mainstream part of corporate IT, then Sharan Kalwani, who manages HPC at General Motors, is its navigator.

Kalwani conducted a four-hour tutorial at the annual International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, or SC06, with an eye toward giving HPC managers an overview of IT management basics. Among the topics covered were ROI, service-level agreements and portfolio management, with some homespun advice about what to expect from IT managers.

"They want the lowest-cost solution, and that's a battle that you find starting from Day One," Kalwani said to a class of about 60 people at the conference.

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