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 230: Forty+ different AI chips
What are we going to do with 40+ different AI chips? This week, the team looks at AI chips again, this time motivated by an article in EE Times about once…
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Episode 229: Amdahl's Law and GPUs, Asian Student Cluster Competition
Results of the Asian Student Cluster Competition In this episode, Dan has just come back from China and reviews the results of the Asian Student Cluster Competition and HPC workshop.…
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Episode 228: In-Memory, Caching, Persistence
Asian Student Cluster Competition The ever-popular “calendar segment” is back (yes, that is us being sarcastic) as Dan describes his upcoming trip to Dalian, China for the Asian Student Cluster…
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Episode 227: Black Hole Seen, with Data to Match
Here’s this week’s synopsis. Black Holes Visualized The news of the cool visualization of an actual black hole leads to interesting issues in HPC land. Shahin is at pains to…
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Episode 226: Enterprises go HPC, Chips go Open Source, China goes for the top spot
We continue to want to make these introductions pretty brief here but not this time, apparently! Here’s this week’s synopsis. Nvidia GTC 2019 announcements We discussed the recent GTC conference.…
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Episode 225: Multicore Scaling Slow Down, and Fooling AI
The team has an animated discussion about multicore scaling, how easy it seems to be to mislead AI systems, and some good sized catches of the week. A common thread…
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Episode 224: AI: Realness and Bias
Starting with this episode, we’ll get a bit more efficient in describing the episodes. Please let us know if you prefer the long format. If you just subscribe on iTunes…
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Episode 223: Nvidia, Mellanox: Married!
Big news in the industry today was Nvidia buying Mellanox for $6.9B. This called fo an emergency session of our crack panel. While it will be several months before the…
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Episode 222: Arm for Exascale is Coming
The show starts with a brief reference to Henry’s “Gator” nickname, a shout out to listeners 13, 14, and 15, plus a bad Arm processor pun. (Puns are the lowest…
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Episode 221: The sinking of the Itanic, a respectful farewell
Our conversation begins with Dan berating Henry for cheaping out on a new headset for our Radio Free HPC recordings. (Henry has since relented and pried open his wallet to…
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Episode 220: Supercomputing to Modernize the Electric Grid
We open the show by talking some weather. It’s so cold at Henry’s house (in Minnesota) that he’s becoming a human superconductor and quantum computing experimenters are showing up at…
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Episode 219: What's an AI Supercomputer? What's up with software SMP?
We start our discussion by contemplating the fact that Shahin doesn’t have a middle name (he says he never needed one) and touching on why Henry has picked up the…
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Episode 128: China Exascale Again (Tianhe-3 is coming), GDPR shows its teeth
After a short talk about the weather in Henry’s basement (it had just reached 60 F by the time we recorded the show), we got right down to business with…
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Episode 217: Weather Forecasting Goes Crowdsourcing, Q means Quantum
In this episode of Radio Free HPC, Dan, Henry, and Shahin start with a spirited discussion of IBM’s recent announcement regarding their crowd sourced weather prediction application. Henry was dubious…
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Episode 216: A Look Back at the 2018 CHPC Conference in South Africa
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks back at the highlights of the 2018 CHPC Conference in South Africa. With over 500 attendees, the event featured a set…
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Episode 215: A Hard Look at Santa's Big Data Challenges
In this podcast video, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the monumental IT challenges that Santa faces each Holiday Season. With nearly 2 billion children to serve, Santa’s operations are an…
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Episode 214: A Look at TOP500 Trends on the Road to Exascale
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the semi-annual TOP500 BoF presentation by Jack Dongarra. The TOP500 list of supercomputers serves as a “Who’s Who” in the field of…
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Episode 213: Running Down the TOP500 at SC18
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks back on the highlights of SC18 and the newest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. The latest TOP500 list of…
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Episode 212: Inside the Spaceborne Supercomputer from HPE
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team sits down with Mark Fernandez from HPE to discuss the Spaceborne Supercomputer that it currently orbiting the planet in the International Space…
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Episode 211: A Preview of the SC18 Student Cluster Competition
In this podcast, Radio Free HPC Previews the SC18 Student Cluster Competition. The Student Cluster Competition was developed in 2007 to provide an immersive high performance computing experience to undergraduate…
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Episode 210: SC18 Preview
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks ahead to preview SC18 in Dallas. The conference takes place Nov. 11 – 16. SC18 in Dallas is world’s largest gathering…
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Episode 206: A Look at the Frightening NotPetya Cyber Attack
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at one of the most massive hacks ever, the NotPetya cyber attack on shipping company Maersk and their partners. This story,…
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Episode 205: 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…
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Episode 204: 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…
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Episode 203: 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…
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Episode 202: 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…
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Episode 201: A Look at Lincoln Labs new paper on Spectre/Meltdown Performance Hits
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at a new whitepaper from Lincoln Labs focused on the performance hits Spectre/Meltdown mitigations. The news is not good for HPC workloads.…
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Episode 200: A Look at China’s Three-Pronged Plan for Exascale
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team goes through a fascinating presentation that provides details on China’s Three-Pronged Plan for Exascale. China may not be the first to Exascale, but…
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Episode 199: Trip Report from ISC 2018
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team offers up a Trip Report from ISC 2018 in Frankfurt. It was a whirlwind week for news with a new USA machine…
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Episode 198: The USA Returns to #1 on the TOP500
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the latest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. The TOP500 celebrates its 25th anniversary with a major shakeup at the top…