Monday, February 6, 2017

A Look at the VW Dieselgate Scandal

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at recent developments in the Volkswagen Dieselgate scandal. According to reports, auto parts supplier Bosch wrote the software for VW that enabled the company's diesel vehicles to cheat on emissions tests. We know because Bosch asked VW for indemnity back in 2006.

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Monday, January 30, 2017

An Interview with Henry's Mom

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team speaks to our special guest for the week: Binnie Coppersmith, also known as Henry's Mom. It's Binnie's 80th birthday, and Dan wants to know once and for all if Henry is an alien, or at least why he is the way he is. After that, we look at the good news that The UberCloud has received $1.7 Million in Pre-A Series funding. It's great news for HPC in the Cloud.

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Monday, January 16, 2017

A Look at Open Source Software for Quantum Computing

In this podcast the Radio Free HPC team looks at D-Wave's new open source QBSOLV software for quantum computing. The software is available on github along with a whitepaper written by Cray Research alums Mike Booth and Steve Reinhardt.

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Monday, January 9, 2017

Friday, December 30, 2016

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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