Archive for August 2017
RFHPC156: Catching Up with Quantum Computing News
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some new developments in the Quantum Computing ecosystem: Rigetti Computing helps Foster Quantum Machine Learning Startup Ecosystem IEEE Approves Standards Project for Quantum Computing Definitions After that, we do our Catch of the Week: Rich is impressed with the ASUS B250 Mining Expert motherboard that has 19 PCIe…
Read MoreRFHPC155: Eclipse Simulations
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the eclipse and how researchers are using supercomputers to simulate the corona of the sun at eclipse time. Update: since we did not have the right camera equipment to record the eclipse, we bring you this simulation from Serena on Twitter: After that, we do our Catch of…
Read MoreRFHPC154: Biohacking in the News
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks alarming new hacks of health care data. Henry points us to a story about a PET scanner hack that exploited Windows 7. He thinks a better design would be to have the device send data only. Shahin thinks that this kind of problem with I0T will require us…
Read MoreRFHPC153: A Second Look at Posit Computing
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the problems with IEEE Floating Point. “As described in a recent presentation by John Gustafson, the flaws and idiosyncrasies of floating-point arithmetic “constitute a sizable portion of any curriculum on Numerical Analysis.” The whole thing has Dan pretty worked up, so we hope that the news of…
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