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…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the Aurora supercomputer coming to Argonne in 2018. The U.S. Department of Energy announced a $200 million supercomputing investment coming to Argonne National Laboratory. As the third of three Coral supercomputer procurements, the deal will comprise an 8.5 Petaflop “Theta” system based on Knights Landing in…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at reports that Google will no longer announce when it does updates to its search algorithms. Google’s investment in artificial intelligence does more than just create better search results; it allows Google’s engineers to make constant algorithm changes right under our noses. Got Something to Say?…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some interesting industry developments from the past week. Diablo Technologies resumes shipping Memory Channel Storage after a court ruling in their patent dispute with Netlist. Did the patent dispute kill their chances for success int he market? With continuing appeals in progress, Diablo is not out of the woods…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team wraps up the GPU Technology Conference. The theme of the show this year was Deep Learning, a topic that is heating up the market for GPUs with challenges like image recognition and self-driving cars. As a sister conference, the OpenPOWER Summit this week in San Jose showcased…