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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