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 and that the real issue is the need for two-factor authentication and end-to-end security. Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * RSS Feed

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 essentially a free-market alternative to AWS that sounds a lot like the marriage of BitCoin and SETI@Home. Read the Full Story * Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * RSS Feed

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 first objective specification enabling measurement of both hardware and software including Hadoop Runtime, Hadoop Filesystem API compatible systems and MapReduce layers. TPCx-HS is a major…

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 described this technology as potential growth area. Henry wants to more about the interface to such and environment before he renders an opinion, while Rich…

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 topic got Slashdotted recently, and the question remains: does Linux want to be more like the mainframe? Rich and Dan take him to task to…