Radio Free HPC Interviews Jack Dongarra on the New TOP500

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the June 2013 TOP500 list with Jack Dongarra from the University of Tennessee. How did the Chinese manage to trump the world once again with the #1 supercomputer on the planet? Listen in to find out.

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You Gotta Own Your Own Archive, Part 2

In Part 2 of this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the importance of owning your own archive of enterprise data.

The discussion was prompted by Henry Newman's presentation entitled: Today’s I/O Challenges for Big Data Analysis from the recent HPC User Forum in Tucson.

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You Gotta Own Your Own Archive, Part 1

In Part 1 of this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the importance of owning your own archive of enterprise data.

The discussion was prompted by Henry Newman's presentation entitled: Today’s I/O Challenges for Big Data Analysis from the recent HPC User Forum in Tucson.

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Holographic Storage on the Horizon

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team takes a look at pending holographic storage technology.

Henry Newman's head is still spinning from the technology previews he saw at the recent IEEE Mass Data Storage Conference. Could this be a game-changer for the tape industry and archiving data? What are the specs, limitations, and most importantly, are these the droids we've been looking for?



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Fireside Chat - HPC Embraces Big Data

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team interview Fritz Ferstl, CTO of Univa. Topics include Big Data, HPC, and the continuing convergence of both.

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Radio Free HPC Looks at Lustre with Brent Gorda

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses Lustre and LUG 2013 with Brent Gorda. Now part of Intel in their High Performance Data Division, Gorda was CEO of Whamcloud when the company was acquired last summer.

Gorda recently wrote a post about the rapid growth of the Lustre community, so we started our discussion there and learned a good deal more about the popular file system.

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The Joy of RDMA?

In this follow-up podcast to the GPU Technology Conference, the Radio Free HPC team mulls over a talk by GE’s Dustin Franklin, GPU app specialist. Dustin’s topic was GPU-direct RDMA; was this a first look at real-world RDMA with GPU-to-GPU communications?

Follow along as the guys describe flow charts on technical slides that are not yet approved by viewing for the “great unwashed masses” – but make no mistake, they’re impressed by what they saw. Dan “knows a guy” who can divulge more, and offers to arrange an inquisition with Henry. Henry promised to “be nice,” whatever he means by that. Rich missed this GTC session and several others while “conducting interviews,” whatever he means by that. Dan offers another characterization.

And this just in: there’s a great deal of information available on the Internet.

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