In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the recent hack of U.S. government employee data. Hackers stole personnel data and Social Security numbers for every federal employee, including military records and veterans’ status information, address, birth date, job and pay history, health insurance, life insurance and pension information; and age, gender, and race data. In a…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks ahead to the ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition. This year, 11 teams from around the globe will face off to build the fastest HPC cluster. Dan has a complete rundown on the roster for this year, which includes two-time repeat champions from CHPC in South Africa: Centre…

In this episode, Rich reports back from the LUG 2015 Lustre User Group Meeting. With something like 188 attendees this year, LUG reflects a user community that has come together to foster the world’s fastest parallel file system. Got Something to Say? Here is our new Voicemail Box: (503) 852-1843. Send us your questions, comments, and ideas and…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the Aurora supercomputer coming to Argonne in 2018. The U.S. Department of Energy announced a $200 million supercomputing investment coming to Argonne National Laboratory. As the third of three Coral supercomputer procurements, the deal will comprise an 8.5 Petaflop “Theta” system based on Knights Landing in…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at reports that Google will no longer announce when it does updates to its search algorithms. Google’s investment in artificial intelligence does more than just create better search results; it allows Google’s engineers to make constant algorithm changes right under our noses. Got Something to Say?…