In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the HPC User Forum & StartupHPC Events coming up in the Fall of 2016. HPC User Forum, Sept. 6-8, Austin, Texas. The HPC User Forum was established in 1999 to promote the health of the global HPC industry and address issues of common concern to users (www.hpcuserforum.com). The organization has…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at why it’s so difficult for new processor architectures to gain traction in HPC and the datacenter. Along the way, we try to take on the following questions: ARM servers have been talked about for a few years now, but haven’t become anything near mainstream. Why is…

In this podcast(opens in new tab), the Radio Free HPC(opens in new tab) team reviews the recent 2016 Intel Developer Forum(opens in new tab). “How will Intel return to growth in the face of a declining PC market? At IDF, they put the spotlight on IoT and Machine Learning. With new threats rising from the likes of AMD…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks HPE’s pending acquisition of SGI. “At HPE, we are focused on empowering data-driven organizations,” said Antonio Neri, executive vice president and general manager, Enterprise Group, Hewlett Packard Enterprise. “SGI’s innovative technologies and services, including its best-in-class big data analytics and high performance computing solutions, complement HPE’s proven…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at use cases for Machine Learning where data locality is critical for effective results. Most of the Machine Learning hearing stories we hear involve a central data repository. Henry says he is not hearing enough about how Machine Learning is going to deal with the problem of…