DSPs for Systems Intelligence at Paypal

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team discusses a new Paypal project that is leveraging TI Keystone DSP processors for systems intelligence.

Paypal has developed a novel approach to systems intelligence. By analyzing their chaotic real-time server data, they can produce organized, intelligent results using HP’s Moonshot server powered by TI DSP processors.

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Celebrity Photo Hack Shows Need for End-to-End Data Security

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the recent iCloud theft of celebrity photos. Are passwords dead? Henry thinks this is simply the data breach of the week and that the real issue is the need for two-factor authentication and end-to-end security.

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A Look at the Xennet Free-Market Cloud

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the Xennet initiative, a “public, distributed, and decentralized Supercomputer.”

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The New TPCx-HS Benchmark for Big Data

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the new TPCx-HS benchmark for Big Data. Designed to asses a broad range of system topologies and implementation methodologies, TPCx-HS is the industry’s first objective specification enabling measurement of both hardware and software including Hadoop Runtime, Hadoop Filesystem API compatible systems and MapReduce layers.

The TPCx-HS benchmark specification is now available online. You can also check out a slidecast on the new benchmark presented by Raghunath Nambiar, chairman of the TPCx-HS committee.

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Moving Processing out to the Network

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the concept of offloading computation to networked devices such a storage controllers. During a recent Analyst Call with Dan Olds, Mellanox described this technology as potential growth area. Henry wants to more about the interface to such and environment before he renders an opinion, while Rich notes that the companies like Solarflare have been doing this at the NIC level for level for several years now.

A Straw Proposal for Better Resource Management in Linux

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC teams looks at Henry Newman's recent straw proposal for better resource management for Linux in HPC.

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Radio Free HPC ISC'14 Wrapup Show

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the highlights from the recent ISC'14 conference in Leipzig, Germany.

• Intel revealed more about their upcoming Knights Landing processor, including the new Omni Scale Fabric.
• Mellanox rolled out the World’s First 100Gb/s EDR InfiniBand Switch as well as the HPC-X Scalable Software Toolkit.
• ARM64 made its debut on the show floor, and it seems to be best suited for accelerated systems.
• Team South Africa won the Student Cluster Competition for the second year in a row, while Team EPCC set a LINPACK record of 10.14 Teraflops.

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