In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team takes a look at Cray’s 2013 earnings report. By all accounts, the company had a banner year with a total revenue of $525.7 million. What does this mean for the overall HPC Market? Who will be the winners and losers as the Tier 1 vendors shift around? Tune…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at a recent study of hard drive reliability by Backblaze. Henry had a cow, writing in Enterprise Storage Forum that the study lacked technical rigor and drew dubious conclusions. Then Slashdot picked it up and all Hell broke loose. Of course, Rich and Dan can’t help but…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team gives their take on the recent news that IBM will soon be exiting the x86 server business. Lenovo looks to have gotten a great price, but just what will this mean to the Cloud and HPC market? Download the MP3

In this slidecast, Fritz Ferstl from Univa leads a fireside chat on the continuing HPC Datacenter Evolution. Topics include: CPUs More cores, more options Memory Architectures and hierarchies Energy Power-down on demand and manage heat Accelerators More widespread, more per server Accelerator or pseudo server? Storage Topologies and file systems Network Topologies View the Slides * Download…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team discusses what was hot and trending at the SC13 conference in Denver. Big Data was everywhere on the exhibit floor, but the coming requirements of Exascale spurred a number of low-power supercomputing demonstrations that look to be the wave of the future. Download the MP3