The High Performance Computing PodcastPosts Tagged ‘GPU’
Episode 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.…
Read MoreEpisode 229: Amdahl's Law and GPUs, Asian Student Cluster Competition
Results of the Asian Student Cluster Competition In this episode, Dan has just come back from China and reviews the results of the Asian Student Cluster Competition and HPC workshop. For the first time, a non-mainland-Chinese team wins the top spot. Taiwan takes the gold in part by their stellar performance in HPCG benchmark where…
Read MoreEpisode 217: Weather Forecasting Goes Crowdsourcing, Q means Quantum
In this episode of Radio Free HPC, Dan, Henry, and Shahin start with a spirited discussion of IBM’s recent announcement regarding their crowd sourced weather prediction application. Henry was dubious as to whether Big Blue could get access to the data they need in order to truly put out a valuable product. Dan had questions…
Read MoreEpisode 180: How NVIDIA’s new EULA Bans Consumer GPUs in the Datacenter
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at NVIDIA’s new EULA GeForce Software user license, which prohibits the use of consumer GPUs in the datacenter. We are not looking to beat up on anyone, but our focus is on what limitations this might mean for the industry: No Datacenter Deployment. The SOFTWARE is not…
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