In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the concept of offloading computation to networked devices such a storage controllers. During a recent Analyst Call with Dan Olds, Mellanox described this technology as potential growth area. Henry wants to more about the interface to such and environment before he renders an opinion, while Rich…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC teams looks at Henry Newman’s recent straw proposal for better resource management for Linux in HPC. His Enterprise Storage Forum column on this topic got Slashdotted recently, and the question remains: does Linux want to be more like the mainframe? Rich and Dan take him to task to…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the highlights from the recent ISC’14 conference in Leipzig, Germany. Intel revealed more about their upcoming Knights Landing processor, including the new Omni Scale Fabric. Mellanox rolled out the World’s First 100Gb/s EDR InfiniBand Switch as well as the HPC-X Scalable Software Toolkit. ARM64 made its…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks newly announced delays for the PCIe 4.0 specification and why this is bad news for high performance computing. After that, the topic switches to the new liquid-cooled Apollo 8000 servers from HP. Download the MP3 * Subscribe on iTunes * RSS Feed

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at a couple of techie books for Summer reading. Flash Boys is about a small group of Wall Street guys who figure out that the U.S. stock market has been rigged for the benefit of insiders and that, post–financial crisis, the markets have become not more…