The High Performance Computing Podcast

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…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the SC17 Student Cluster Competition. “In this real-time, non-stop, 48-hour challenge, teams of undergraduate and/or high school students assemble a small cluster on…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC teams discusses performance optimization with Carolyn Pasti and Don Avart from Red Line Performance Solutions. RedLine Performance Solutions is a world-class provider of high-performance…

In this podcast(opens in new tab), the Radio Free HPC(opens in new tab) team previews the ancillary events leading up to SC17(opens in new tab), which takes place Nov. 12-17 in Denver.…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team asks the question: Is the Cloud Killing the Tape Market? The issue came up this week that Spectra Logic is laying off 9 percent…

In this podcast, Dan Olds from OrionX describes Project Cyclops – a benchmarking quest to build the world’s fastest single node. Codenamed “Cyclops”, the single-node supercomputer demonstrates the computational power…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Henry Newman’s recent proposal to use Blockchain as a way to combat Fake News. Henry shares that this rant result from what he saw…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Smart Cities. As the featured topic this year at the SC17 Plenary, the Smart Cities initiative looks to improve the quality of life…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at China’s massive upgrade of the Tianhe-2A supercomputer to 95 Petaflops peak performance. As detailed in a new 21-page report by Jack Dongarra…

In this Radio Free HPC podcast, Dan Olds and Shahin Khan from OrionX describe their new AI Survey. “OrionX Research has completed one the most comprehensive surveys to date of…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC(opens in new tab) team looks at Dan’s recent talk on High Performance Interconnects. When it comes to choosing an interconnect for your HPC cluster, what…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some new developments in the Quantum Computing ecosystem: Rigetti Computing helps Foster Quantum Machine Learning Startup Ecosystem IEEE Approves Standards Project for…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the eclipse and how researchers are using supercomputers to simulate the corona of the sun at eclipse time. Update: since we did not…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks alarming new hacks of health care data. Henry points us to a story about a PET scanner hack that exploited Windows 7. He…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team learns about Henry’s first exploit as an Ethical Superhero. “After witnessing a hit-and-run fender bender, Henry confronted the culprit and ensured that the miscreant…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at why the Alan Turing Institute is focusing on Graph Computing with their acquisition of a Cray Urika-GX supercomputer. ‘Hosted at the University…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at why Drive Writes Per Day are such an important metric for acquiring the right kind of SSD for your particular…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks back at the recent ISC 2017 conference and summarizes results from Student Cluster Competition. Eleven student teams were on the show floor…

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…

In this podcast, Rich gives us a day-by-day preview of the upcoming ISC 2017 conference. The event takes place June 18-22 in Frankfurt, Germany. “ISC High Performance focuses on HPC technological…

In this podcast, Rich gives us the lowdown on his recent tour of the SuperNAP datacenter in Las Vegas. Run by Switch, the campus has over up to 2.4 million…

In this podcast, Henry goes on a shopping spree at Best Buy. His mom was moving into a new place, so he got her all-new electronics to the tune of…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the announcements coming from Google IO conference. Of particular interest was their second-generation TensorFlow Processing Unit (TPU2). After that, we do…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Volta, Nvidia’s new GPU architecture that delivers up to 5x the performance of its predecessor. At the GPU Technology Conference, Nvidia CEO…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the results from the ASC17 Student Cluster Competition finals in Wuxi, China. In the end, Tsinghua University won the overall competition, beating…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at a recent update on the Exascale Computing Project by Paul Messina. “The Exascale Computing Project (ECP) was established with the goals…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the upcoming MSST Mass Storage Conference with Program Chair Matthew O’Keefe from Oracle. The conference takes place May 15-19 in Santa Clara,…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the week’s top stories: Quantum Startup Rigetti Computing Raises $64 Million in Funding. Today Rigetti Computing, a leading quantum computing start-up,…

In this show, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some the top High Performance Computing stories from this week: Europe’s efforts to lead HPC in the next decade. As part…