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…

In this episode, Rich and Dan preview the Student Cluster Competition at ISC’14 in Leipzig. The Teams: Centre for HPC (CHPC), South Africa Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), South Korea Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Bentley University, Northeastern University(NEU), United States EPCC at The University of Edinburgh (EPCC), United Kingdom Chemnitz University of…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at a grab bag of technical news items for the week of May 11, 2014: A landmark ruling by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling that an individual could demand that “irrelevant or outdated” information be deleted from Google search results. A new Bull supercomputer…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the Seven Myths of SSD vs. HDD Pricing, one of Henry’s recent Slashdotted features at Enterprise Storage Forum. In a nutshell, Henry thinks that the notion of SSDs replacing spinning disks in the datacenter is built on several of flawed assumptions regarding flash storage. First,…

In this episode, Dan and Henry wax poetically on the 50th Anniversary of the Mainframe. Dan flew across the country to attend the festivities, and Henry sounds a bit jealous. Rich has no idea why anyone would even cross town for such a thing, so he gets taken to the woodshed on this one. Play…