The next steps in the OpenTCA initiative include branching out from the initial group of broker sponsors to include buy-side and additional sell-side representation in order to establish a process for adoption of best practices.
Most recently, a team from Stanford took the helm of Sequoia to run computational fluid dynamics simulations -- a process that requires a finely tuned balance of computation, memory and communication components -- in order to better understand engine noise from supersonic jets.
Many creative processes are sabotaged at the beginning, when impatient designers rush through or skip the creative fermentation process in order to get to the so-called good stuff.