In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team shares their thoughts from SC15 in Austin. Henry is impressed by the increasing presence of FPGAs on the show floor and he sees this as an important trend in high performance computing. Dan is really impressed with Allinea Performance Reports profiling tool and how easy it is to use. The…

In this special Halloween podcast, the Radio Free HPC team shares their biggest fears for HPC. Rich fears that the NSCI National Supercomputing Initiative created by Obama’s Executive Order will have trouble obtaining funding in these tough economic times. He thinks its time to bring in professional communicators and talk about HPC and Exascale in terms of…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks Dell’s pending acquisition of EMC. Dell Inc. and EMC Corporation have signed a definitive agreement under which Dell, together with its owners, Michael S. Dell, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell, MSD Partners and Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing, will acquire EMC Corporation, while…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the new round of Grand Challenges targeted by the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). The conversation was sparked by an Scientific Computing editorial by IBM’s Dave Turek. Traditionally, the focus within the high performance computing community has been on optimizing systems to handle hardcore scientific problems…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team goes over a Trip Report from Rich Brueckner, who’s been on the road for the past month at a series of HPC conferences: HPC User Forum in Broomfiled, CO. The event featured two full days of talks. Here we discuss a couple of standouts that you can watch on insideHPC: Processing…