Episode 98: Upgrade Your Home Network for Big Speed Gains

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at why it pays to upgrade your home networking gear. Henry doubled his download performance to over 80 Mbps just by upgrading his router. His shopping tip is to buy the device with the fastest processor. Dan continues to get lousy performance and even though his devices are just…

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Episode 97: Live Report from SC15 in Austin

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team shares their thoughts from SC15 in Austin. Henry is impressed by the increasing presence of FPGAs on the show floor and he sees this as an important trend in high performance computing. Dan is really impressed with Allinea Performance Reports profiling tool and how easy it is to use. The…

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Episode 96: What Scares us about the Future of HPC

In this special Halloween podcast, the Radio Free HPC team shares their biggest fears for HPC. Rich fears that the NSCI National Supercomputing Initiative created by Obama’s Executive Order will have trouble obtaining funding in these tough economic times. He thinks its time to bring in professional communicators and talk about HPC and Exascale in terms of…

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Episode 95: What Happens After Dell's Acquisition of EMC?

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks Dell’s pending acquisition of EMC. Dell Inc. and EMC Corporation have signed a definitive agreement under which Dell, together with its owners, Michael S. Dell, founder, chairman and chief executive officer of Dell, MSD Partners and Silver Lake, the global leader in technology investing, will acquire EMC Corporation, while…

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