Episode 44: insideHPC Acquires the Exascale Report

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the recent acquisition of The Exascale Report by insideHPC. Exascale-level computing remains a daunting challenge that is still years away, and Rich is excited to take it on as an editorial focus. The good news is that he’ll be moving the publication away from its subscription…

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Episode 43: Cray 2013 Earnings Bellwether the HPC Market

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…

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Episode 42: Henry Rants About Flawed Hard Drive Study

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…

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Episode 41: Lenovo Acquires IBM's x86 Server Business

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

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RFHPC 40: HPC Datacenter Evolution

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…

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