Lenovo Superfish Scandal

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the recent Lenovo laptop scandal involving Superfish malware. The company intentionally installed the program, which replaces security certificates so that the company could serve up ads on encrypted web pages.

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Archive Debacle at WGBH in Boston

In this episode, Radio Free HPC looks an archival horror story from WGBH in Boston. As the PBS affiliate attempted to move its archived video footage to the American Project, the organization was horrified to discover that many of their files on LTO4 tapes were unreadable.

Does your archive strategy match up with today's storage economics? Henry contends that this is really worth a look as the notion that "write once to tape and forget" is a recipe for disaster. In an era where this WGBH archive could easily fit on 38 hard drives, does migration to tape still make sense?

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Sorting through the HPC News Grab Bag

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team digs into the Grab Bag for Topics of the Week"

• Dan attended the Lenovo Analyst Conference, and they have him convinced that the company is Going Big on HPC.
• Rich notes that D-Wave Systems has just landed an additional $29 Million in financing. Is Quantum Computing ready for Prime Time?
• Henry is looking forward to seeing what the President's science priorities are going to be when his budget comes out this week. 

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