In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at how the KatRisk startup is using GPUs on the Titan supercomputer to calculate global flood maps. KatRisk is a catastrophe modeling company focused on flood and wind risk. KatRisk develops event-based probabilistic models to quantify portfolio aggregate losses and exceeding probability curves. Their goal is to develop models that fully correlate…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team previews the ISC 2015 conference, which takes place July 12-16 in Frankfurt, Germany. ISC 2015 Keynotes: Dr. Jürgen Kohler from Daimler AG will give the opening keynote on July 13. As the head of NVH CAE and Vehicle Concepts at Daimler AG, Kohler will talk about “High-Performance Computing – Highly Efficient Development –…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the recent hack of U.S. government employee data. Hackers stole personnel data and Social Security numbers for every federal employee, including military records and veterans’ status information, address, birth date, job and pay history, health insurance, life insurance and pension information; and age, gender, and race data. In a…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks ahead to the ISC 2015 Student Cluster Competition. This year, 11 teams from around the globe will face off to build the fastest HPC cluster. Dan has a complete rundown on the roster for this year, which includes two-time repeat champions from CHPC in South Africa: Centre…

In this episode, Rich reports back from the LUG 2015 Lustre User Group Meeting. With something like 188 attendees this year, LUG reflects a user community that has come together to foster the world’s fastest parallel file system. Got Something to Say? Here is our new Voicemail Box: (503) 852-1843. Send us your questions, comments, and ideas and…