In this one, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the Milky Way (Tianhe-2) supercomputer from China that now owns the top slot on the TOP500 list. They kick around the hardware and explore the configuration, but then the conversation shifts to real science and recent news about Blue Waters cracking into the HIV virus.…

In Part 2 of this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the importance of owning your own archive of enterprise data. The discussion was prompted by Henry Newman’s presentation entitled: Today’s I/O Challenges for Big Data Analysis from the recent HPC User Forum in Tucson. Download the MP3         Download the…

In Part 1 of this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the importance of owning your own archive of enterprise data. The discussion was prompted by Henry Newman’s presentation entitled: Today’s I/O Challenges for Big Data Analysis from the recent HPC User Forum in Tucson. Download the MP3          Download the…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team takes a look at pending holographic storage technology. Henry Newman’s head is still spinning from the technology previews he saw at the recent IEEE Mass Data Storage Conference. Could this be a game-changer for the tape industry and archiving data? What are the specs, limitations, and most…

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team interview Fritz Ferstl, CTO of Univa. Topics include Big Data, HPC, and the continuing convergence of both. While what we think of as traditional HPC may differ greatly from Big Data analytics, that seems to be changing. With a long history in high performance computing and customers…