In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team is still talking about the recently concluded SC12 conference in Salt Lake City. The conversation starts with a short review of Thanksgiving dinner (including disgusting eating noises added in at no additional charge) before moving on to more weighty topics. The topic? Intel’s formal introduction of their…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team quits griping about the horrible WiFi at SC12 and moves on to a truly big issue: Are LINPACK and HPCC benchmarks useful? Should they be constantly re-evaluated? And shouldn’t you really test machines on the kinds of workloads they’re designed to run? The catalyst for this discussion…

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team regroups after SC12 to discuss an industry trend that was in evidence at the show: vendor consolidation     Cray just acquired Appro Intel acquired Qlogic Truescale InfiniBand, Whamcloud, and Cray interconnect IP IBM bought Platform Xyratex bought ClusterStor Hitachi acquired BlueArc NetApp bought Engenio storage And…

Here’s a brief preview of what we expect to see at SC12. Liquid cooling? Check. Lots of talk about exascale? Check. But maybe some new systems from the major players? Hard to say. We either don’t know or we’re under NDA….maybe both? Download the MP3              Download the video

In this edition, a sleep-deprived, rage-fueled Henry Newman assails Glacier, Amazon’s cloud archive and backup offering. Amazon is pitching Glacier as a solution for customers who don’t need frequent access to their data and can handle retrieval times of several hours. The big enticements are low, low cost — as little as a penny per…