The High Performance Computing Podcast

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at CloudHarmony, an online service that measures and compares cloud provider uptime. We simplify the comparison of cloud services by providing reliable and objective performance…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team discusses how they’d change the current Student Cluster Competitions in order to make them a more comprehensive test for aspiring HPC professionals. Henry wants to codify…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Network Security in light of the recent series of breaches at places like Sony, Home Depot, and Target Our special guest…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the Turing Test for artificial intelligence. Does the Turing Test need to be retired as discussed on insideHPC, or does…

In this episode, Rich, Dan, and Henry review the year in HPC: In this podcast, Rich, Dan, and Henry review the year in HPC: Why SSDs Have Not Hurt the…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team wraps up the SC14 conference. It was a big week for all of us, so in the interest of time we each…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team meets at SC14 in New Orleans to discuss the recent news that Nvidia & IBM will build two Coral 150+ Petaflop Supercomputers…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC reviews the new Print ‘n Fly Guide to SC14 New Orleans. Designed to be an in-flight magazine, the Guide is custom tailored for…

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In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at IBM’s plans to hand off its microelectronics unit to Global Foundries. Is Big Blue on the right track? While Dan…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team previews the StartupHPC Meetup at SC14. Does your Startup have ties to High Performance Computing? SC14 will be in New Orleans this…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team discuss the possibility of a future where the Big 3 (Amazon, Google, and Microsoft) figure out that Cloud is not profitable and pull…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team discusses a new Paypal project that is leveraging TI Keystone DSP processors for systems intelligence. Paypal has developed a novel approach to systems intelligence. By analyzing their…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the recent iCloud theft of celebrity photos. Are passwords dead? Henry thinks this is simply the data breach of the week…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the Zennet initiative, a “public, distributed, and decentralized Supercomputer.” As the brainchild of Israeli computer scientist Ohad Asor, Zennet is…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the new TPCx-HS benchmark for Big Data. Designed to asses a broad range of system topologies and implementation methodologies, TPCx-HS is the industry’s…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the concept of offloading computation to networked devices such a storage controllers. During a recent Analyst Call with Dan Olds, Mellanox…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC teams looks at Henry Newman’s recent straw proposal for better resource management for Linux in HPC. His Enterprise Storage Forum column on this…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the highlights from the recent ISC’14 conference in Leipzig, Germany. Intel revealed more about their upcoming Knights Landing processor, including the…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks newly announced delays for the PCIe 4.0 specification and why this is bad news for high performance computing. After that, the topic…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at a couple of techie books for Summer reading. Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who…

In this episode, Rich and Dan preview the Student Cluster Competition at ISC’14 in Leipzig. The Teams: Centre for HPC (CHPC), South Africa Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST),…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at a grab bag of technical news items for the week of May 11, 2014: A landmark ruling by the European…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the Seven Myths of SSD vs. HDD Pricing, one of Henry’s recent Slashdotted features at Enterprise Storage Forum. In a…

In this episode, Dan and Henry wax poetically on the 50th Anniversary of the Mainframe. Dan flew across the country to attend the festivities, and Henry sounds a bit jealous.…

In this video, the Radio Free HPC team looks at HPC announcements from the GPU Technology Conference 2014. With their upcoming Pascal generation of GPUs, Nvidia plans to bring NVLink…

In this video, Dan Olds and Rich Brueckner from Radio Free HPC take a Tesla Motors electric sedan for a test drive. Dan has a lead foot, so hang on…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the wave of HPC conferences coming up this Spring. Henry is headed to a speaking gig at the HPC User…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the coming wave of declustered RAID solutions designed to address the problem of ever-increasing RAID rebuild times. With 5 Terabyte…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the newly announced RONNIEE Network Architecture from A3 Cube. Rich did a slidecast with their CTO this week, but Dan…