Episode Archive...
Check out our hot takes from yesteryear to ancient history. Given hindsight, were we right or wrong or somewhere in between?
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Episode 289 and 290 Special Fun-tastic Double Episode
We’re finally starting to cut into our product backlog and, as a first, we’re presenting our special road trip double episode where Jessi and Dan traveled to the House of…
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Episode 288: SiFive’s Big Score, Will Nvidia Buy Arm?
We start out with our personal pledge that all of our content is new and not pre-recorded. That’s our gift to you – no recycled, reused or Amazon Renewed content.…
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Episode 287: MLperf Wars & AMD’s Gaudy Numbers
Summer inventory clearance days for Radio Free HPC! We’re blasting through our processing backlog and getting the episodes out as fast as possible (but no faster). In this episode, we…
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Episode 285 Is Amazon’s Graviton2 Ready for Prime (Time)?
The show starts on a high note, with Henry’s audio being amazingly echo free. Usually we hear a lot of echo as Henry talks, which is due to the rammed…
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Episode 284: HPC Market Growth, Winter Classic Invitational
HPC Market Projected Growth It’s a few weeks since we recorded this episode so maybe things have changed, but as of the recording the HPC market is projected to grow…
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Episode 283: ISC, Student Cluster Competition Recap
ISC20 Smashing Online Success The RadioFreeHPC team looks back at the success that ISC20 was and discusses what attending an online-only conference was like. Big kudos and thanks to the…
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Episode 282: The Persistence of Memory
Intel Optane Memory Nothing says HPC like having the performance cake and eating it too. In this episode, we drill down on what Intel is doing with their cool Optane…
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Episode 147: A Complete Rundown on the new TOP500
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the latest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. It’s Day 1 here at the ISC 2017 conference, and we’ll be keeping…
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Episode 281: Is it Time for Virtual GPUs?
VMware’s Bitfusion and Dell We start with team introductions, as usual, but drop a bombshell on listeners: we’re going to be missing Jessi for the next couple of months as…
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Episode 280: 18th Listener Award! NSF, QIS Funding
18th Listener Awards! Run-of-the-mill start as we introduce the team. Henry has quite a bit of echo since he’s now firmly ensconced in his rammed earth survival compound. Big news…
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Episode 279: New Top on the TOP500 – 415 PF!
Breaking News Edition We have a new #1 on the TOP500 list of most powerful supercomputers! Big gets bigger by a factor of 2.8x as Fujitsu’s “Supercomputer Fugaku” tops the…
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Episode 278: @HPC_Guru Speaketh! Kind of.
Our Guest Today is… In this extraordinary episode of Radio Free HPC, the crew interviews the industry icon that is @HPC_Guru. This is the first time that anyone has been…
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Episode 277: HPC on the Edge
New Book Makes Sense of Edge Computing After our typical inane opening, which includes an update on Henry’s Las Cruces bunker with 21” rammed earth walls, we get quickly down…
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Episode 276: A is for Ampere, Nvidia A100’s Public Debut
NOTE: The publication of this episode was delayed due to the untimely passing of our partner and pal Rich Brueckner. So what we’re announcing as “breaking news” isn’t so fresh…
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Episode 275: Tribute to Rich Brueckner, 1962-2020
by Dan Olds This is a tough blog to write for this RadioFreeHPC episode. This is the episode where we say a final goodbye to our co-founder and comrade in…
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Episode 274: Debate This: Server Sales Up 30% in Q1, Says Analyst Firm
We start off with an update from our crew. Jessie is at Purdue putting her belongings into storage in order to clear out her current abode. Shahin is doing fine,…
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Episode 273: ColdQuanta Serves Up Some Bose-Einstein Condensate
The show starts with Dan, Jessi and Shahin in attendance. Henry is traveling from his old home base in Minnesota to his new command bunker in lovely Las Cruces, NM.…
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Episode 272: What Good Did It Do? Quite a Lot, and Quite the Story
A typical show opening, but we’re missing Henry – he was away packing for his big move from his long-time home base in Minnesota to his new bunker in Las…
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Episode 270: SIHOGLIC: The Life & Times of Charles Babbage
RadioFreeHPC Studios Presents Slightly Inaccurate History of Great Leaps in Computing (SIHOGLIC) Edition One In this groundbreaking production, RadioFreeHPC Studios reenacts dramatic moments in the life of computing genius Charles…
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Episode 270: AI in Science. When is it real?
We fire up the show with introductions and a little snippiness on Dan’s part. Henry reports that the weather in Minnesota is nearly human. AI in Science Jumping into our…
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Episode 269: Supercomputers Battle Corona
The conversation today begins with discussing how long it will take until Henry moves into his rammed earth Los Cruces bunker. For those of you keeping track at home, the…
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Episode 268: Climbing El Capitan? Details Detailed!
Supercomputer Leaps to New Peaks At the top of the show we discuss whether Indiana (where Jessi is located at Purdue) is in the heartland or not. We all agree…
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Episode 267: One Big Debate over OneAPI
For RadioFreeHPC aficionados, it’s a typical opening for this episode. Henry is counting down the days until he moves to sunny Los Cruces and we have a lull in the…
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Episode 266: Let’s Learn Deeply about Extreme Weather
This week we have Dan, Jessi, and Shahin on the call. Henry is off in Los Cruces overseeing construction of what can only be called a bunker. Why? Its main…
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Episode 265: Slingshotting to Exascale, It’s Hot!
At the top of this episode, Henry notes that the temperature in his city will be touching -15F, which is plenty cold. However, it’s very good overclocking weather as Dan…
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Episode 264: Coronavirus
The show starts with our traditional lull, which always follows our initial introductions – when no one knows who should speak first, or prefer not to. However, we quickly regain…
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Episode 263: Faster Weather, Pizza, Tires
And High Powered Radio Towers, too The show starts out in the usual way with check ups on the health and happiness of our hosts. Jessi finished a 50-mile race…
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Episode 262: ZFS, AI for System Design, Power in GCE
Surprise! It’s Snowing in Minnesota The show starts on a combative note with Henry refusing to discuss how much snow is arrayed around his house. Dan shares his dream running…
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Episode 261: 2020 Predictions, Get it?!
Shiny Crystal Ball It’s our first episode of 2020, yay! The first that was recorded in 2020 anyway. It’s a predictable 20/20 joke (more of a meh comment really) but…