In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the Seven Myths of SSD vs. HDD Pricing, one of Henry’s recent Slashdotted features at Enterprise Storage Forum. In a nutshell, Henry thinks that the notion of SSDs replacing spinning disks in the datacenter is built on several of flawed assumptions regarding flash storage. First,…

In this episode, Dan and Henry wax poetically on the 50th Anniversary of the Mainframe. Dan flew across the country to attend the festivities, and Henry sounds a bit jealous. Rich has no idea why anyone would even cross town for such a thing, so he gets taken to the woodshed on this one. Play…

In this video, the Radio Free HPC team looks at HPC announcements from the GPU Technology Conference 2014. With their upcoming Pascal generation of GPUs, Nvidia plans to bring NVLink and 3D stacked memory to market in their ongoing battle against the HPC memory wall. Download the MP3 * See Dan’s Tesla Test Drive * Subscribe on…

In this video, Dan Olds and Rich Brueckner from Radio Free HPC take a Tesla Motors electric sedan for a test drive. Dan has a lead foot, so hang on and come along for the ride!

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the wave of HPC conferences coming up this Spring. Henry is headed to a speaking gig at the HPC User Forum and then on to GEOINT. Dan is off to China for the ASC Student Competition. Meanwhile, Rich will be on the road for a…