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Episode 234: ExaScale is a 4-way Competition
ExaScale is a 4-way Competition In this post-ISC show, the RadioFree team discusses Magical cooling technology from Europe. Dan goes over magic beads that draw heat away and can carry-on doing it pretty much forever in a technology from the venerable Fraunhofer Institute and showcased by Lenovo. How pursuit of ExaScale computing is turning into…
Read MoreEpisode 233: Why did HPE buy Cray?
We exchange some pleasantries, discussing Henry’s upcoming brisket feed and his drink cooler strategy (parallel and semi-virtualized.) Then it’s on to the major topic of the day: HPE buying Cray. Shahin starts off by discussing some of HPE’s recent purchases and noting their participation in upcoming exascale conversation. With the purchase of Cray, HPE is…
Read MoreEpisode 232: Quantum Computing and HPC
Quantum Computing and HPC Another scintillating and insightful episode of RFHPC is about Quantum Computing and HPC and how the two spaces are evolving and cooperating. We welcome a a distinguished guest with a most suitable background to talk to us about HPC and Quantum Computing. Mike Booth, who’s been in supercomputing since 1979 including…
Read MoreEpisode 231: TOP500 Jun2019, Facebook Coin
The new TOP500 list of most powerful supercomputers is out and we do our usual quick analysis. Not much changed in the TOP10 but a lot is changing further down the list. Here is a quick take: There are 65 new entries in 2019. US science is receiving support via DOE sites and academic sites like TACC.…
Read MoreEpisode 230: Forty+ different AI chips
What are we going to do with 40+ different AI chips? This week, the team looks at AI chips again, this time motivated by an article in EE Times about once such chip, Graphcore, and touts it as “the most complex processor” ever at some 20 billion transistors. The VC-backed company out of Bristol, UK is…
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