In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the future of Operating Systems in the new world of computing. After that, we go round-robin for our Catch of the Week: Henry is on the lookout for big changes in Net Neutrality that could leave some states out in the cold when it comes to…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the results from SC16 Student Cluster Competition.  This year, the advent of clusters with the new Nvidia Tesla P100 GPUs made a huge impact, nearly tripling the Linpack record for the competition. The Student Cluster Competition returned for its 10th year at SC16, The competition which debuted…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the latest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. The 48th edition of the TOP500 list saw China and United States pacing each other for supercomputing supremacy. Both nations now claim 171 systems apiece in the latest rankings, accounting for two-thirds of the list. However, China has…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the ancillary events around SC16 in Salt Lake City. Friday, Nov 11 HP-CAST (Friday-Saturday). The High Performance Consortium for Advanced Scientific and Technical (HP-CAST) computing users group works to increase the capabilities of Hewlett Packard Enterprise solutions for large-scale, scientific and technical computing. The company has recently completed its acquisition of SGI,…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the SC16 Student Cluster Competition. The Student Cluster Competition was developed in 2007 to immerse undergraduate and high school students in high performance computing. Student teams design and build small clusters, with hardware and software vendor partners, learn designated scientific applications, apply optimization techniques for their chosen…