Cloud Harmony Rates Provider Service Uptime

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Cloud Harmony, an online service that measures and compares cloud provider uptime.

We simplify the comparison of cloud services by providing reliable and objective performance analysis, reports, commentary, metrics and tools.

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RF-HPC74: Modding the Student Cluster Competition

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team discusses how they’d change the current Student Cluster Competitions in order to make them a more comprehensive test for aspiring HPC professionals.

Henry wants to codify rules that span all competitions in order to provide a level playing field and to satisfy his authoritarian nature. Dan isn’t so sure that would work, given that each of the sponsoring organizations have their own ideas about how to best run a competition. However, both of them believe that the competitions need to become more real world when it comes to systems, applications, and how they’re used. One of the first steps along this road, the guys agree, is to add a storage component to the competitions.

Since Rich isn’t around for this show, the boys take the opportunity to make fun of his Apple addiction and how Rich is probably all worried about bending his phone on his European jaunt.

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Network Security and the Big Data Breaches of 2014

In this episode the Radio Free HPC Team looks at Network Security in light of the recent series of breaches at places like Sony, Home Depot, and Target

Our special guest this week is Security Expert Linda Millis, who has a day job as Senior VP of Sol-Pass.

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Poking Fun at the Turing Test

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the Turing Test for artificial intelligence. Does the Turing Test need to be retired as discussed on insideHPC? The discussion quickly degrades into what may be our funniest show ever!

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We Review 2014 - The Year in HPC

In this episode, Rich, Dan, and Henry review the year in HPC.
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The SC14 Wrapup Show

In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team wraps up the SC14 conference.

A Hard Look at the Two 2017 Coral Supercomputers

In this episode, the Radio Free HPC team meets at SC14 in New Orleans to discuss the recent news that Nvidia & IBM will build two Coral 150+ Petaflop Supercomputers in 2017 for Lawrence Livermore and Oak Ridge National Laboratories. The two machines will feature IBM POWER9 processors coupled with Nvidia’s future Volta GPU technology. NVLink will be a critical piece of the architecture as well, along with a system interconnect powered by Mellanox.

Henry thinks that IBM will have trouble delivering, and he reminds us what happened when they stumbled and pulled out of the Blue Waters deal at NCSA. Will this be the same story? Rich thinks they will come through, though probably 18 months late. Dan is being the pragmatic one this week. Go figure.

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