Episode 112: Looking Back at IDF 2016

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 of a declining PC market? At IDF, they put the spotlight on IoT and Machine Learning. With new threats rising from the likes of AMD…

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Episode 111: A First Look at HPE’s Pending Acquisition of SGI

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 manager, Enterprise Group, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “SGI’s innovative technologies and services, including its best-in-class big data analytics and high performance computing solutions, complement HPE’s proven…

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Episode 110: Machine Learning & Data Locality

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 hear involve a central data repository. Henry says he is not hearing enough about how Machine Learning is going to deal with the problem of…

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Episode 109: New Chip Architectures — Picking the Winners

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 ISC in Germany this year, but what does it take for a chip architecture to be a winner? Looking back, chips like DEC Alpha had…

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Episode 108: First Look at the Sunway TaihuLight 93 Petaflop Supercomputer

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 fastest supercomputers. As announced this morning at ISC 2016(opens in new tab), the fastest supercomputer on the TOP500 is new Sunway TaihuLight System in Wuxi,…

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