1. 1 The Good  HPC brings a wealth of parallelization experience, petaflop scaling and hybrid architectures.  Analytics brings new algorithms and new markets.  The Database world brings new paradigms, new users and… Big Data.

2. 2 The Bad  Highly parallel HPC machines are frankly hard to program. Hybrid architectures make this worse.  Analytics, particularly over non-tabular data structures, requires users to think about their problem in an entirely new way.  Big Data brings scaling issues to every link of the analysis chain, including the user.

3. 3 The Beautiful  The ugliness of massively parallel hybrid architectures can be hidden under layers of abstraction.  New visualization techniques can bring new ways of understanding large problems. High-level languages calling HPC subroutines make programming easier.  New levels of insight into very large and mixed datasets will bring new benefits to society.