In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team gives their take on the recent news that IBM will soon be exiting the x86 server business. Lenovo looks to have gotten a great price, but just what will this mean to the Cloud and HPC market? Download the MP3

In this slidecast, Fritz Ferstl from Univa leads a fireside chat on the continuing HPC Datacenter Evolution. Topics include: CPUs More cores, more options Memory Architectures and hierarchies Energy Power-down on demand and manage heat Accelerators More widespread, more per server Accelerator or pseudo server? Storage Topologies and file systems Network Topologies View the Slides * Download…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team discusses what was hot and trending at the SC13 conference in Denver. Big Data was everywhere on the exhibit floor, but the coming requirements of Exascale spurred a number of low-power supercomputing demonstrations that look to be the wave of the future. Download the MP3

In this episode, Rich and Dan talk Big Data Sports with Paul Bessire, a statistician and founder of PredictionMachine.com. My pal Rich Brueckner and I had a chance to interview PredictionMachine.com founder Paul Bessire as part of our Radio Free HPC podcast a few weeks ago. In the programme, Paul discusses the genesis of the…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses interconnect requirements for applications outside of the current Exascale mission profile. Henry is concerned that these hyperscale machines are getting so physically large that the latency will be a showstopper for applications that have to wait for data. The speed of light is not going to…