In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team welcomes Shahin Khan from OrionX to a discussion on chip architectures for HPC. More and more new alternative architectures were in evidence at ISC in Germany this year, but what does it take for a chip architecture to be a winner? Looking back, chips like DEC Alpha had…

In this podcast, Shahin Khan from OrionX joins the Radio Free HPC(opens in new tab) team for a look at the new TOP500(opens in new tab) list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. As announced this morning at ISC 2016(opens in new tab), the fastest supercomputer on the TOP500 is new Sunway TaihuLight System in Wuxi,…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the news highlights for the week leading up to Friday the 13th of May, 2016: Fujitsu to Build 25 Petaflop Supercomputer at JCAHPC in Japan. OpenPOWER Summit Coming to Frankfurt June 16-17. Combating the Spread of Disease with HPC. D-Wave Systems Launches Quantum for Quants Online…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team recaps the ASC16 Student Cluster Competition in China and the 2016 MSST Conference in Santa Clara. Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * RSS Feed

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team recaps the GPU Technology Conference. Since Rich is traveling around in some desert somewhere, Dan and Henry go it alone and discuss what happened at last week’s GTC’16 conference. They talk about the new Pascal (P1000) GPU, NVIDIA’s new server, and what happened at the concurrent OpenPOWER conference.…