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 new Omni Scale Fabric. Mellanox rolled out the World’s First 100Gb/s EDR InfiniBand Switch as well as the HPC-X Scalable Software Toolkit. ARM64 made its…

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 switches to the new liquid-cooled Apollo 8000 servers from HP. Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * RSS Feed

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 figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post–financial crisis, the markets have become not more…

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), South Korea Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Bentley University, Northeastern University(NEU), United States EPCC at The University of Edinburgh (EPCC), United Kingdom Chemnitz University of…

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A landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling that an individual could demand that “irrelevant or outdated” information be deleted from Google search results. A new Bull supercomputer…