Episode 139: A Preview of the 2017 MSST Mass Storage Conference

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the upcoming MSST Mass Storage Conference with Program Chair Matthew O’Keefe from Oracle. The conference takes place May 15-19 in Santa Clara, California. Since the conference was founded by the leading national laboratories, MSST has been a venue for massive-scale storage system designers and implementers, storage architects,…

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Episode 138: A Look at Quantum Startup Rigetti Computing

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the week’s top stories: Quantum Startup Rigetti Computing Raises $64 Million in Funding. Today Rigetti Computing, a leading quantum computing start-up, announced it has raised $64 million in Series A and B funding. “Quantum computing will enable people to tackle a whole new set of problems…

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Episode 137: Europe Push for World Leadership in HPC

In this show, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some the top High Performance Computing stories from this week: Europe’s efforts to lead HPC in the next decade. As part of Digital Day 2017(opens in new tab), thought leaders in European Industry and Academia discussed the requirements for placing Europe as a world leader in…

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Episode 136: Can the USA Return to HPC Leadership Over China?

In this podcast, Radio Free HPC looks at a recent report that the USA needs to take aggresive action to keep up with China in High Performance Computing. Produced by the NSA-DOE Technical Meeting on High Performance Computing, the report states that we need to change course now or the U.S. will lose leadership and not control…

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Episode 135: Azure Moves to OCP Platform

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team a set of IT and Science stories: Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Ingrasys announced a new industry standard design to accelerate Artificial Intelligence in the next generation cloud. The Project Olympus hyperscale GPU accelerator chassis for AI, also referred to as HGX-1, is designed to support eight of the latest…

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