Archive for August 2018
RFHPC205: A look at Hot Chips 2018
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the latest developments in processor technology coming out of the recent Hot Chips conference. Since it started in 1989, HOT CHIPS has been known as one of the semiconductor industry’s leading conferences on high-performance microprocessors and related integrated circuits. The conference is held once a…
Read MoreRFHPC204: A Look at the New Eagle Supercomputer at NREL
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the new Eagle supercomputing under construction at NREL. The new machine from HPE will run more detailed models that simulate complex processes, systems, and phenomena to advance early research and development on energy technologies across fields including vehicle, wind power, and data sciences. We are…
Read MoreRFHPC203: A Look at China's New Exascale Prototypes
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at China’s new ARM-based Exascale supercomputer prototype. As reported in China Daily, scientists have put an exascale computing prototype into operation that does not run the x86 instruction set. The Sunway exascale computer prototype was developed by the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering and Technology…
Read MoreRFHPC202: A look at the IO500 Benchmark Suite with John Bent
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team talks to John Bent from the IO500 committee about why he and a team of I/O professionals created the IO500 benchmark suite. The second IO500 list was revealed at ISC 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany. Following the success of the Top500 in collecting and analyzing historical trends in supercomputer…
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