In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Smart Cities. As the featured topic this year at the SC17 Plenary, the Smart Cities initiative looks to improve the quality of life for residents using urban informatics and other technologies to improve the efficiency of services. With the accelerating volume of data about cities, HPC is helping cities to…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at China’s massive upgrade of the Tianhe-2A supercomputer to 95 Petaflops peak performance. As detailed in a new 21-page report by Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee, the upgrade should nearly double the performance of the system, which is currently ranked at #2 on TOP500 with 33.86 Petaflops…

In this Radio Free HPC podcast, Dan Olds and Shahin Khan from OrionX describe their new AI Survey. “OrionX Research has completed one the most comprehensive surveys to date of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning. With over 300 respondents in North America, representing 13 industries, our model indicates a confidence level of 95%…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC(opens in new tab) team looks at Dan’s recent talk on High Performance Interconnects. When it comes to choosing an interconnect for your HPC cluster, what is the best way to go? Is offloading better than onloading? You can find out more by watching Dan’s talk from the HPC Advisory Council…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some new developments in the Quantum Computing ecosystem: Rigetti Computing helps Foster Quantum Machine Learning Startup Ecosystem IEEE Approves Standards Project for Quantum Computing Definitions After that, we do our Catch of the Week: Rich is impressed with the ASUS B250 Mining Expert motherboard that has 19 PCIe…