Episode 166: Speeding up Workloads with Redline Performance Solutions

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC teams discusses performance optimization with Carolyn Pasti and Don Avart from Red Line Performance Solutions. RedLine Performance Solutions is a world-class provider of high-performance computing solutions. Our promise: to ensure objectively engineered top quality solutions at every phase of the HPC life cycle, minimizing labor, time, and costs. Our proprietary RedLine…

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Episode 164: Countdown to SC17 in Denver

In this podcast(opens in new tab), the Radio Free HPC(opens in new tab) team previews the ancillary events leading up to SC17(opens in new tab), which takes place Nov. 12-17 in Denver. Here is the countdown to SC17: HP-CAST(opens in new tab), Nov. 10-11. The High Performance Consortium for Advanced Scientific and Technical (HP-CAST) computing users group works…

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Episode 163: Is the Cloud Killing Tape?

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team asks the question: Is the Cloud Killing the Tape Market? The issue came up this week that Spectra Logic is laying off 9 percent of its workforce. “There may be a silver lining for Spectra Logic, with a legacy of tape storage. The technology has had its ups and…

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Episode 159: Announcing Project Cyclops – One Node to Rule them All

In this podcast, Dan Olds from OrionX describes Project Cyclops – a benchmarking quest to build the world’s fastest single node. Codenamed “Cyclops”, the single-node supercomputer demonstrates the computational power that individual scientists, engineers, artificial intelligence practitioners, and data scientists can deploy in their offices. Cyclops has achieved results of (score) for the HPCC benchmark,…

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Episode 162: Using Blockchain to Combat Fake News

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Henry Newman’s recent proposal to use Blockchain as a way to combat Fake News. Henry shares that this rant result from what he saw as an egregious story that was going around that could have been easily quashed. “What if every audio or video app on your phone, TV…

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