Radio Free HPC Looks at GPU Technology Conference 2014

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at HPC announcements from the GPU Technology Conference 2014.

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Radio Free HPC Looks at Spring 2014 Conferences

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the wave of HPC conferences coming up this Spring.

Henry is headed to a speaking gig at the HPC User Forum and then on to GEOINT. Dan is off to China for the ASC Student Competition. Meanwhile, Rich will be on the road for a month straight at GTC, the Swiss HPC Conference, LUG 2014, and then off to moderate a Big Data Panel at the Red Hat Summit.

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The Coming Wave of Declustered RAID

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the coming wave of declustered RAID solutions designed to address the problem of ever-increasing RAID rebuild times. With 5 Terabyte drives in the wings, RAID cluster rebuild times are becoming impractical.

Dan is impressed with what IBM is doing in this area with GPFS.
Henry thinks these larger drives harken the death of RAID-5 and RAID-6.
Rich has been keeping a close watch on Xyratex and their ClusterStor GridRaid implementation.
Read the original paper on Declustered RAID by Garth Gibson and Mark Holland.

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The RONNIEE Network Architecture

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the newly announced RONNIEE Network Architecture from A3 Cube. Rich did a slidecast with their CTO this week, but Dan and Henry need to know more and see this thing for themselves.

Following that, the conversation veers off into a grab bag of tech news for the week:

• Dan's is still recovering from a rootkit that infected his business computer. We seem to recall that he was always backlogged before this happened, but we'll let it slide.
• Henry is lamenting the lack of Google Fiber coming to Minnesota. Since Google tends to piggyback on the fastest Internet pipes, it looks like the state will forever be a third-world country in terms of bandwidth.
• Rich is excited about the Outernet project, which hopes to launch a series of satellites that will provide free Internet connectivity worldwide to anyone who wants it.

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