The High Performance Computing Podcast

In this podcast, Radio Free HPC looks at a Startup called Storj, which will pay you to use your excess data capacity as cloud-based storage based on Blockchain technology. “Our mission is…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team hosts Dan’s daughter Elizabeth. How did Dan get this way? We’re on a mission to find out even as Elizabeth complains of the early…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses a recent presentation by John Gustafson on Next Generation Computer Arithmetic. “A new data type called a “posit” is designed for direct drop-in replacement for…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at recent developments in the Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal. According to reports, auto parts supplier Bosch wrote the software for VW that enabled…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team speaks to our special guest for the week: Binnie Coppersmith, also known as Henry’s Mom. It’s Binnie’s 80th birthday, and Dan wants to…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at two hot stories from last week: Cray to Develop ARM-based Isambard Supercomputer for UK Met Office. The GW4 Alliance, together with Cray and the UK Met…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at D-Wave’s new open source software for quantum computing. The software is available on github along with a whitepaper written by Cray…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team shares the things we’re looking forward to in 2017. Shahin is looking forward to the iPhone 8. Henry and Dan will stick with…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team honors the Festivus tradition of the annual Airing of Grievances. After that, we each share our Catch of the Week: Henry notes that…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at how Shahin Khan fared with his OrionX 2016 Technology Issues and Predictions. Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * RSS Feed

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the future of Operating Systems in the new world of computing. After that, we go round-robin for our Catch of the…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the results from SC16 Student Cluster Competition.  This year, the advent of clusters with the new Nvidia Tesla P100 GPUs made a…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the latest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. The 48th edition of the TOP500 list saw China and United States pacing…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the ancillary events around SC16 in Salt Lake City. Friday, Nov 11 HP-CAST (Friday-Saturday). The High Performance Consortium for Advanced Scientific and Technical (HP-CAST) computing users…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the SC16 Student Cluster Competition. The Student Cluster Competition was developed in 2007 to immerse undergraduate and high school students in high…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the new OpenCAPI interconnect standard. Released today by the newly formed OpenCAPI Consortium, OpenCAPI provides an open, high-speed pathway for different types of…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the issue of security for Augmented Reality and IoT. Now that every device in our lives is getting connected to the…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discuss Henry Newman’s recent editorial calling for a self-descriptive data format that will stand the test of time. Henry contends that we seem…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some interesting new developments in HPC Power & Cooling: Solar-Powered Hikari Supercomputer at TACC Demonstrates HVDC Efficiencies. The HVDC technologies in…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the recent news that Intel has sold its controlling stake in McAfee and that NSF has funded the next generation of XSEDE. Plus,…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the HPC User Forum & StartupHPC Events coming up in the Fall of 2016. HPC User Forum, Sept. 6-8, Austin, Texas. The HPC User…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at why it’s so difficult for new processor architectures to gain traction in HPC and the datacenter. Along the way, we try…

In this podcast(opens in new tab), the Radio Free HPC(opens in new tab) team reviews the recent 2016 Intel Developer Forum(opens in new tab). “How will Intel return to growth in the face…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks HPE’s pending acquisition of SGI. “At HPE, we are focused on empowering data-driven organizations,” said Antonio Neri, executive vice president and general…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at use cases for Machine Learning where data locality is critical for effective results. Most of the Machine Learning hearing stories we…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team welcomes Shahin Khan from OrionX to a discussion on chip architectures for HPC. More and more new alternative architectures were in evidence at…

In this podcast, Shahin Khan from OrionX joins the Radio Free HPC(opens in new tab) team for a look at the new TOP500(opens in new tab) list of the world’s…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the news highlights for the week leading up to Friday the 13th of May, 2016: Fujitsu to Build 25 Petaflop Supercomputer…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team recaps the ASC16 Student Cluster Competition in China and the 2016 MSST Conference in Santa Clara. Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * RSS Feed