In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the coming wave of declustered RAID solutions designed to address the problem of ever-increasing RAID rebuild times. With 5 Terabyte drives in the wings, RAID cluster rebuild times are becoming impractical. Dan is impressed with what IBM is doing in this area with GPFS. Henry…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the newly announced RONNIEE Network Architecture from A3 Cube. Rich did a slidecast with their CTO this week, but Dan and Henry need to know more and see this thing for themselves. Following that, the conversation veers off into a grab bag of tech news…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the recent acquisition of The Exascale Report by insideHPC. Exascale-level computing remains a daunting challenge that is still years away, and Rich is excited to take it on as an editorial focus. The good news is that he’ll be moving the publication away from its subscription…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team takes a look at Cray’s 2013 earnings report. By all accounts, the company had a banner year with a total revenue of $525.7 million. What does this mean for the overall HPC Market? Who will be the winners and losers as the Tier 1 vendors shift around? Tune…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at a recent study of hard drive reliability by Backblaze. Henry had a cow, writing in Enterprise Storage Forum that the study lacked technical rigor and drew dubious conclusions. Then Slashdot picked it up and all Hell broke loose. Of course, Rich and Dan can’t help but…