In this podcast, a sleep-deprived, rage-fueled Henry Newman assails Glacier, Amazon’s cloud archive and backup offering. Amazon is pitching Glacier as a solution for customers… Read More »RF-HPC Ep13 Melting Amazon's Glacier
In this episode, our hosts agree that “software is not magic” and consumers don’t want to be tracked. Will there be a backlash? Will this… Read More »RF HPC Ep12 Tracking Backlash and Big Data
At OSCON, or the Open Source Convention, a presentation on the “Clothesline Paradox” aptly illustrated the way developers create value. Many large companies such as… Read More »RF HPC Ep 11 Rich Goes to OSCON
Power is a major challenge standing in the way of the Exascale computing. While the target is to consume 20 MW or less for an… Read More »RF HPC Ep10 Exascale Challenge Power
This episode is devoted to Allan Snavely, CTO of Lawrence Livermore National Lab, who passed away unexpectedly in July 2012. He was widely known as… Read More »RF HPC Ep 9 Remembering Allan Snavely, HPC Visionary
Is that parrot completely dead, or is it just resting? Is tape now legacy technology, or is it alive and well? And can’t our data… Read More »RF HPC Ep 8 Is Tape Dead or Just Quiet?