In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team regroups after SC12 to discuss an industry trend that was in evidence at the show: vendor consolidation     Cray just acquired Appro Intel acquired Qlogic Truescale InfiniBand, Whamcloud, and Cray interconnect IP IBM bought Platform Xyratex bought ClusterStor Hitachi acquired BlueArc NetApp bought Engenio storage And…

Here’s a brief preview of what we expect to see at SC12. Liquid cooling? Check. Lots of talk about exascale? Check. But maybe some new systems from the major players? Hard to say. We either don’t know or we’re under NDA….maybe both? Download the MP3              Download the video

In this edition, a sleep-deprived, rage-fueled Henry Newman assails Glacier, Amazon’s cloud archive and backup offering. Amazon is pitching Glacier as a solution for customers who don’t need frequent access to their data and can handle retrieval times of several hours. The big enticements are low, low cost — as little as a penny per…

In this episode, our hosts agree that “software is not magic” and consumers don’t want to be tracked. Will there be a backlash? Will this be the new marketing point for competing browsers? Dan admits to being creeped out by email offers that result from Internet searches… Rich reveals that he is besieged by ads…

At OSCON, or the Open Source Convention, a presentation on the “Clothesline Paradox” aptly illustrated the way developers create value. Many large companies such as Comcast make a living on open-source software. In this podcast, Dan digresses into a string of complaints about his Comcast bill, but Henry and Rich reel in the discussion: was…