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 260: Quantum, Quantum, Quantum
This episode was recorded back in 2019 but then the holiday episode had to go out during holidays and cut in line, messing up the cogs of the well-oiled machine…
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Episode 259: 2019 Holiday Episode (video): Family Dinner at Episode
It’s become a tradition at RadioFreeHPC to celebrate the holidays with a video of the holiday episode. The new logo launches the video: celebrating a truly family style dinner and…
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Episode 258: South Africa CHPC National Conference
SA Students Get Ready to take ISC by Storm Probably 15% more scintillating than usual, Dan promises as he calls this episode “fantastic”! Now a 5-day conference with two days…
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Episode 257: SC19: Our Visit to the State Fair
SC19 Postview Our show today is all about what we saw at the “State Fair for Nerds” that is SC19. Where there weren’t any livestock shows or supercomputers carved out…
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Episode 256: SC19 Student Cluster Competition – Recap
SC19 Student Cluster Round Up The show starts in the usual way, with Henry complaining about snow and us laughing at him. Our special guest, student clusterer extraordinaire Jessi Lanum,…
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Episode 255: New TOP500 List: Spot The Difference
Live from SC19 In this Breaking News edition of RadioFreeHPC, we look over the newly released TOP500 list in all its glory. We talk about the changes in this version…
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Episode 254: SC19 Student Cluster Competition – Preview
Blood Sweat Glory, But No Tears “This is a groundbreaking episode of RadioFreeHPC….groundbreaking, I tell you! We have a very special guest, our first post-millennial commentator, Jessi Lanum who is…
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Episode 253: Truth, Trust, and Deepfakes
You never write, you never call, you never send flowers “just because.” But that’s ok, we welcome you back to another scintillating episode of Radio Free HPC anyway. Henry is…
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Episode 252: Preview of Supercomputing ’19 – Denver
What’s All Happening at SC19 in Denver? Supercomputing ’19 is coming to Denver this year and who better than Rich Brueckner to give us a sneak peak. Super excited to…
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Episode 251: 7 Years, 251 Episodes, 17 Listeners
RadioFreeHPC Celebrates a Number in its Prime Welcome to a historic milestone: Our 251st Radio Free HPC episode! We’re celebrating 251 rather than 250 for a couple of reasons. First,…
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Episode 250: Fragile: Python, sudo, AI
How Many Episodes, Did You Say?! The show is geographically skewed today with all three hosts on the west coast. Henry is gracing Seattle with his presence, resulting in plunging…
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Episode 249: RISC-V CEO Sees Bright Global Future for Open Source CPUs
RISC-V, Historic Passwords Revealed, End of the World We’re missing Henry S. Newman this week, who is down in Los Cruces inspecting and overseeing the construction of his new crib.…
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Episode 248: Turing Machine is Sequential, How About a Parallel Machine?
Solving Exponential Problems in Polynomial Time Pretty much all of computing rests on the strong foundation of the Turing Machine, a general purpose formulation of computing which happens to be…
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Episode 247: Quantum Supremacy? Yes and No!
Quantum Supremacy Is and Is Not How quantum is that?! The RadioFreeHPC team discusses the Google/NASA paper, titled “Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor”, that was published and then…
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Episode 246: FinTech and HPC-AI
@RadioFreeHPC Has Entered The Building First things first, you can call us @RadioFreeHPC now, thanks to our new Twitter account. We decided maybe this social media thing is not a…
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Episode 245: RFP Pro Benchmarking Tips
The Dos and Donts of RFP Benchmarks In today’s show we only have Dan and Henry on deck, Shahin is away at the “HPC and AI on Wall Street” event…
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Episode 244: Extreme Power and Cooling Efficiency
Yes, You Can Be More Efficient! Dan is back from way Down Under bearing intellectual gifts from the recent HPC-AI Advisory Council meeting in Perth. The RadioFree HPC team drills…
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Episode 243: IO500 Team Visit
IO500 Benchmark Gets Traction Storage is complicated and benchmarking it has too many complexities for the traditional kernel-like or application-specific approaches. Thanks to a few experienced and tenacious researchers, and…
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Episode 242: The Hottest of Hot Chips Conference
The 31st Hot Chips Conference Shahin reports from the Hot Chips conference with Henry and new guest Glenn Heinle, a veteran of AI, HPC, and Storage worlds and currently at…
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Episode 241: Coral is Cray for All
Cray Pulls an Exascale Hat Trick Guess who’s having a great year? Think Aurora, Frontier, and El Capitan. Cray has put some nice numbers on the accounts receivable ledger, and…
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Episode 240: AMD Victory Lap
AMD Victory Lap AMD mojo continues as it pushes Moore’s law one more time. RadioFree looks into the AMD Rome CPU, a beast that brings back the glory days of…
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Episode 239: Who will benefit from Intel dropping Omni-Path?
Spoofing the Spoofers Henry has a brilliant idea to weaponize his password generator against phishing attacks. Intel Drops Omni-Path Henry and Shahin take a close look at the history of…
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Episode 238: Is Our Future Liquid Cooled? Also: Provenance of Surveillance Data!
The Veracity and Provenance of Surveillance Data Controversy strikes when news breaks that “Amazon’s home security company Ring has enlisted local police departments around the country to advertise its surveillance…
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Episode 237: Is Cloud Too Expensive for HPC?
Is cloud too expensive for HPC? Enquiring minds want to know, as does the HPC community whose single-minded obsession with maximum price-performance is notorious and legendary. The Radio Free team…
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Episode 236: Quantum Apps Are Hybrid
“Quantum applications are always and only hybrid” is the quote that Shahin wants you to remember as he gives an update on recent news in Quantum Computing, and especially how…
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Episode 235: HPC Market Eyes $44B in 5 Years
HPC Market Eyes $44B New report from Hyperion Research has the HPC+AI market growing to $44B, with a B, in 5 years. The industry is hitting on all cylinders, benefiting…
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Episode 234: ExaScale is a 4-way Competition
ExaScale is a 4-way Competition In this post-ISC show, the RadioFree team discusses Magical cooling technology from Europe. Dan goes over magic beads that draw heat away and can carry-on…
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Episode 233: Why did HPE buy Cray?
We exchange some pleasantries, discussing Henry’s upcoming brisket feed and his drink cooler strategy (parallel and semi-virtualized.) Then it’s on to the major topic of the day: HPE buying Cray.…
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Episode 232: Quantum Computing and HPC
Quantum Computing and HPC Another scintillating and insightful episode of RFHPC is about Quantum Computing and HPC and how the two spaces are evolving and cooperating. We welcome a a…
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Episode 231: TOP500 Jun2019, Facebook Coin
The new TOP500 list of most powerful supercomputers is out and we do our usual quick analysis. Not much changed in the TOP10 but a lot is changing further down the list.…