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…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the new round of Grand Challenges targeted by the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI). The conversation was sparked by an Scientific Computing editorial by IBM’s Dave Turek. Traditionally, the focus within the high performance computing community has been on optimizing systems to handle hardcore scientific problems…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team goes over a Trip Report from Rich Brueckner, who’s been on the road for the past month at a series of HPC conferences: HPC User Forum in Broomfiled, CO. The event featured two full days of talks. Here we discuss a couple of standouts that you can watch on insideHPC: Processing…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team previews three of the excellent Tutorial sessions coming up at SC15: Architecting, Implementing, and Supporting Multi-Level Security Eco-System in HPC, ISR, Big Data Analysis and Other Environments Benchmarking Platforms for Large-Scale Graph Processing and RDF Data Management: The LDBC Approach Sixth International Workshop on Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation…

We are together in Hillsboro, Oregon in the video, yay! In this edition, we discuss the newly announced 3D XPoint(opens in new tab) technology from Intel and Micron. Following more than a decade of research and development, 3D XPoint technology was built from the ground up to address the need for non-volatile, high-performance, high-endurance and…