The High Performance Computing Podcast

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the ISC 2018 Student Cluster Competition. “Now in its seventh year, the ISC-HPCAC Student Cluster Competition enables international STEM teams to…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the new 200 Petaflop Summit supercomputer that was unveiled this week at ORNL. Powered by IBM POWER9 processors, 27,648 NVIDIA GPUs, and…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the new NVIDIA HGX-2 Reference Platform for HPC & AI. “The HGX-2 cloud server platform supports multi-precision computing, supporting high-precision calculations using…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at ramifications for the European GPDR laws, which went into effect May 25, 2018. The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the most…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the results of the ASC 2018 Student Cluster Competition. “The ASC 2018 Student Supercomputer Challenge finalist were announced on March 20, 2018.…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team takes a look at daunting performance targets for the DOE’s CORAL-2 RFP for Exascale Computers. “So, 1.5 million TeraFlops divided by 7.8…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the new interactive USA Supercomputing Map from Hyperion Research.  “The mapped sites include government, academic and industrial HPC data centers,…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the new Department of Energy’s RFP for Exascale Computers. Called CORAL-2, this Request for Proposal is for up to $1.8…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses technology changes and how senior citizens work with social media. Henry’s Mom Binnie Coppersmith is once again our guest on the show, which is…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses technology changes in the last 50 years of the Travel Agencies. Henry’s Mom Binnie Coppersmith is once again our guest on the show, which…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Facebook’s testimony before Congress. “Dan Olds and Henry Newman are the only guys on deck today, Rich and Shahin are…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the highlights of the GPU Technology Conference. From Rich’s perspective, the key HPC announcement centered around new NVIDIA DGX-2 supercomputer with…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team goes off the supercomputing rails a bit with a discussion on digital immortality. A new company called Nectome will reportedly archive your…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPCteam looks at the big three technologies of the day on the Hype curve: Machine Learning. The GTC conference is coming up, and we are…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPCteam looks at the tradeoff between chip performance and security. In the aftermath of the recently disclosed Spectre and Meltdown exploits, Cryptograpy guru Paul…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the recent cryptocurrency crash and why prices for these coins is so volatile. After that, we do our Catch of…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at European Commission’s recent move to fund exascale development with 1 Billion Euros. While Europe already had a number of exascale…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the performance ramifications of the Spectre and Meltdown exploits that affect processors from Intel, AMD, and many others. While patches…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews their list of things Not Invited Back in 2018. Along the way, they share some of their New Year Resolutions. Not…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews 2017 Technology Predictions from OrionX. While all the numbers are not in yet, here are the OrionX 2017 predictions look to…

In this video, Dan Olds from Radio Free HPC offers up his rant-filled rendition of the 12 Days of Christmas. “To all of our listeners, we wish you a very…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the FCC’s move to abolish Net Neutrality regulations put in place during the Obama administration. Dan thinks this is a…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at all new fast devices that came to market this week for HPC. IBM Power9 Servers are here! Launched this week,…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at a controversy stirred up by the recent Irish Supercomputing List. The 9th Irish Supercomputer List was released this week. For the first time,…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team goes over the results of the SC17 Student Cluster Competition. This year, Nanyang Technological University from Singapore took the Top Prize. “The…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team describes the highlights of SC17 in Denver. Highlights includes the debut of ARM hardware for HPC, a Rasberry Pie Cluster, and pervasive…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the latest TOP500 list in front of a live audience in Denver at SC17. The fiftieth TOP500 list of the fastest…