The High Performance Computing PodcastPosts Tagged ‘Exascale’
Episode 241: Coral is Cray for All
Cray Pulls an Exascale Hat Trick Guess who’s having a great year? Think Aurora, Frontier, and El Capitan. Cray has put some nice numbers on the accounts receivable ledger, and these are not ordinary numbers. The Exascale era is being defined substantially by the DOE Coral program and the commercial markets are watching as their…
Read MoreEpisode 234: ExaScale is a 4-way Competition
ExaScale is a 4-way Competition In this post-ISC show, the RadioFree team discusses Magical cooling technology from Europe. Dan goes over magic beads that draw heat away and can carry-on doing it pretty much forever in a technology from the venerable Fraunhofer Institute and showcased by Lenovo. How pursuit of ExaScale computing is turning into…
Read MoreEpisode 233: Why did HPE buy Cray?
We exchange some pleasantries, discussing Henry’s upcoming brisket feed and his drink cooler strategy (parallel and semi-virtualized.) Then it’s on to the major topic of the day: HPE buying Cray. Shahin starts off by discussing some of HPE’s recent purchases and noting their participation in upcoming exascale conversation. With the purchase of Cray, HPE is…
Read MoreEpisode 232: Quantum Computing and HPC
Quantum Computing and HPC Another scintillating and insightful episode of RFHPC is about Quantum Computing and HPC and how the two spaces are evolving and cooperating. We welcome a a distinguished guest with a most suitable background to talk to us about HPC and Quantum Computing. Mike Booth, who’s been in supercomputing since 1979 including…
Read MoreEpisode 231: TOP500 Jun2019, Facebook Coin
The new TOP500 list of most powerful supercomputers is out and we do our usual quick analysis. Not much changed in the TOP10 but a lot is changing further down the list. Here is a quick take: There are 65 new entries in 2019. US science is receiving support via DOE sites and academic sites like TACC.…
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