Episode 129: Cray Looks to ARM HPC

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at two hot stories from last week: Cray to Develop ARM-based Isambard Supercomputer for UK Met Office. The GW4 Alliance, together with Cray and the UK Met Office, has been awarded £3m by EPSRC to deliver a new Tier 2 HPC service for UK-based scientists. This unique new service, named ‘Isambard’ after the renowned…

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Episode 128: Quantum Software Goes Open Source

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at D-Wave’s new open source software for quantum computing. The software is available on github along with a whitepaper written by Cray Research alums Mike Booth and Steve Reinhardt. D-Wave Systems released the open-source, quantum software tool as part of its strategic initiative to build and foster a quantum software…

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Episode 127: Technologies We’re Looking Forward to in 2017

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team shares the things we’re looking forward to in 2017. Shahin is looking forward to the iPhone 8. Henry and Dan will stick with Android. Shahin is also actively watching for much needed advancements in IoT security. Henry is looking forward to storage innovations and camera technologies in the…

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Episode 126: The Festivus Airing of Grievances for 2016

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team honors the Festivus tradition of the annual Airing of Grievances. After that, we each share our Catch of the Week: Henry notes that the hackers have set their sights on investment bank lawyers who have prior knowledge of future acquisitions. Shahin was intrigued by the recent Leap Second…

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