In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team discuss the possibility of a future where the Big 3 (Amazon, Google, and Microsoft) figure out that Cloud is not profitable and pull the plug. If that Cloud Apocalypse sounds far fetched, check out these recent news nuggets: An article in The Register that describes how Amazon lost money…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team discusses a new Paypal project that is leveraging TI Keystone DSP processors for systems intelligence. Paypal has developed a novel approach to systems intelligence. By analyzing their chaotic real-time server data, they can produce organized, intelligent results using HP’s Moonshot server powered by TI DSP processors. The challenge confronted here is a…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the recent iCloud theft of celebrity photos. Are passwords dead? Henry thinks this is simply the data breach of the week and that the real issue is the need for two-factor authentication and end-to-end security. Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * RSS Feed

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the Zennet initiative, a “public, distributed, and decentralized Supercomputer.” As the brainchild of Israeli computer scientist Ohad Asor, Zennet is essentially a free-market alternative to AWS that sounds a lot like the marriage of BitCoin and SETI@Home. Read the Full Story * Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * RSS Feed

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the new TPCx-HS benchmark for Big Data. Designed to asses a broad range of system topologies and implementation methodologies, TPCx-HS is the industry’s first objective specification enabling measurement of both hardware and software including Hadoop Runtime, Hadoop Filesystem API compatible systems and MapReduce layers. TPCx-HS is a major…