Festivus Year-End Airing of Grievances

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team honors the Festivus tradition of the annual Airing of Grievances. Our random gripes include: the need for a better HPC benchmark suite, the missed opportunity for ARM servers, the skittish battery in the new Macbook Pro, and a lack of industry standards body for cloud computing.

After that, we each share our Catch of the Week.

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Reviewing OrionX 2016 Technology Issues and Predictions

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at how Shahin Khan fared with his OrionX 2016 Technology Issues and Predictions.

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Looking at the SC16 Student Cluster Competition Configurations & Results

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the results from SC16 Student Cluster Competition. 

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Day-by-Day Preview of SC16

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the ancillary events around SC16 in Salt Lake City.

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Looking into OpenCAPI

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the new OpenCAPI interconnect standard.

Released today by the newly formed OpenCAPI Consortium, OpenCAPI provides an open, high-speed pathway for different types of technology – advanced memory, accelerators, networking and storage – to more tightly integrate their functions within servers. This data-centric approach to server design, which puts the compute power closer to the data, removes inefficiencies in traditional system architectures to help eliminate system bottlenecks and can significantly improve server performance.

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Looking at Security for Augmented Reality

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the issue of security for Augmented Reality and IoT. Now that every device in our lives is getting connected to the Internet, how will be prevented from attackers? Henry points out that even our medical devices are not safe any more.

After that, we wrap things up with our Catch of the Week roundtable.

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Forever Data Formats

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discuss Henry Newman's recent editorial calling for a self-descriptive data format that will stand the test of time. Henry contends that we seem headed for massive data loss unless we act.

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A Look at New Power & Cooling Technologies for HPC

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at some interesting new developments in HPC Power & Cooling:

• Solar-Powered Hikari Supercomputer at TACC Demonstrates HVDC Efficiencies. The HVDC technologies in the Hikari supercomputer at TACC could save 15 percent compared to conventional systems. "The 380 volt design reduces the number of power conversions when compared to AC voltage systems," said James Stark, director of Engineering and Construction at the Electronic Environments Corporation (EEC), a Division of NTT FACILITIES.
• Aquila Launches Liquid Cooled OCP Server Platform. Using a fan-less design based on liquid cooling technology from Clustered Systems, the new Aquarius rack from Aquila can support up to 100 Kw.

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XSEDE 2.0 Gets NSF Funding

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the recent news that Intel has sold its controlling stake in McAfee and that NSF has funded the next generation of XSEDE.

Plus, we continue our new regular feature: The Catch of the Week.

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Looking ahead to the 2016 HPC User Forum & StartupHPC Events

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team previews the HPC User Forum & StartupHPC Events coming up in the Fall of 2016.

• HPC User Forum, Sept. 6-8, Austin, Texas.
• StartupHPC, Nov. 14, Salt Lake City, Utah.

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Alternative HPC Processors

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at why it's so difficult for new processor architectures to gain traction in HPC and the datacenter.

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Reviewing IDF 2016

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the recent 2016 Intel Developer Forum.

"How will Intel return to growth in the face of a declining PC market? At IDF, they put the spotlight on IoT and Machine Learning. With new threats rising from the likes of AMD and Nvidia, will Chipzilla make the right moves? Tune in to find out."

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First Look: HPE to Acquire SGI

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks HPE's pending acquisition of SGI.

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Machine Learning & Data Locality

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at use cases for Machine Learning where data locality is critical for effective results.

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New Chip Architectures for HPC

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team welcomes Shahin Khan from OrionX to a discussion on chip architectures for HPC.

First Look at the #1 Sunway TaihuLight Supercomputer

In this podcast, Shahin Khan from OrionX joins the Radio Free HPC team for a look at the new TOP500 list of the world's fastest supercomputers.

As announced this morning at ISC 2016, the fastest supercomputer on the TOP500 is new Sunway TaihuLight System in Wuxi, China. Developed by the National Research Center of Parallel Computer Engineering & Technology (NRCPC), TaihuLight scored a whopping 93 Petaflops on the LINPACK benchmark. To put that in perspective, that is nearly three times faster than the previous #1 system, the Tianhe-2 supercomputer, which has moved to #2 after ruling the roost for some three years or so TaihuLight is also five times faster than Titan, the 17 Petaflop machine at ORNL, which is still the fastest machine in the USA.

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HPC News Roundup for Friday the 13th

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the news highlights for the week leading up to Friday the 13th of May, 2016.

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Trip Reports from ASC16 & MSST

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team recaps the ASC16 Student Cluster Competition in China and the 2016 MSST Conference in Santa Clara.

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Recap of the GPU Technology Conference

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team recaps the GPU Technology Conference.

Since Rich is traveling around in some desert somewhere, Dan and Henry go it alone and discuss what happened at last week’s GTC’16 conference. They talk about the new Pascal (P1000) GPU, NVIDIA’s new server, and what happened at the concurrent OpenPOWER conference. A good time is had by all….”

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Looking Ahead to the GPU Technology Conference

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team congratulates Dan Olds on becoming a Partner at OrionX. Then they go on to preview the GPU Technology Conference coming up April 4-7 in Silicon Valley.

GTC is the largest and most important event of the year for GPU developers. Join us this year as we showcase the most vital work in the computing industry today - Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning, Virtual Reality and Self Driving Cars. GTC attracts developers, researchers, and technologists from some of the top companies, universities, research firms and government agencies from around the world.

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Using Blockchain to Create the Internet of Value

 In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at blockchain technology with Chris Skinner, author of ValueWeb - How FinTech firms are using mobile and blockchain technologies to create the Internet of Value.

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Dell Acquistion of EMC Nears Closure

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Dell's acquisition of EMC, which is expected to close soon pending regulatory approval.

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Should Apple Decrypt the iPhone?

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Apple's fight against a court order to decrypt an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters.

The government contends that a 1789 law called the All Writs Act compels Apple to honor a search warrant and assist the authorities in getting access to unlock and decrypt the iPhone 5C used by Syed Rizwan Farook in the San Bernardino shooting in December. The government contends that phone might contain crucial evidence in the case.

Apple CEO Tim Cook on Tuesday evening said the US government's legal position on encryption backdoors was setting "a dangerous precedent.” If a back door is created to crack this particular phone, bad guys will be able to exploit it.

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Top Technology Stories for High Performance Computing in 2015

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the Top Technology Stories for High Performance Computing in 2015.

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