Michael Feldman Podcast: Top HPC Trends in 2010; Seeds Planted for 2011
Post Date: December 17, 2010 @ 3:43 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael wrap up the year in HPC and take a peek at developing trends for 2011. Plus, the stat of the year.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: DoD Cuts Off Supercomputing Center; Gathering Storm, Revisited
Post Date: December 10, 2010 @ 3:00 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss the Department of Defense's abandonment of the Arctic Region Supercomputing Center and provide some analysis on a new report about US science and technology competitiveness.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Mellanox Proposes to Voltaire; First Petaflop Supercomputer in Russia
Post Date: December 03, 2010 @ 12:29 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about the ramifications of Mellanox's plans to buy Voltaire and discuss Russia's upcoming petaflop supercomputer.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: More GPUs On Demand; Fledgling Graph 500 List
Post Date: November 23, 2010 @ 3:05 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael revisit some news items from last week's Supercomputing Conference.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Highlights from SC10
Post Date: November 19, 2010 @ 3:01 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael consider the results of the TOP500 and Green500, pick the winners and losers of SC10, and discuss the biggest news of the week.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: HPC Vendors Gear Up for SC; Supercomputing Heads to the Big Easy
Post Date: November 12, 2010 @ 3:28 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss this week's vendor announcements in the run-up to the Supercomputing Conference and look ahead to the big event.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: IBM Aims for Mainstream; T-Platforms Heads Upstream
Post Date: November 05, 2010 @ 12:35 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael offer some perspective on IBM's latest HPC business strategy and discuss T-Platforms' plans to bring a new supercomputing interconnect to market.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Chinese Supercomputer Sets Linpack Record; Wrap-up of First HPC Cloud Conference
Post Date: October 29, 2010 @ 5:08 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Nicole talk about the record-setting GPGPU supercomputer from China and offer some perspective on the happenings at the first ISC Cloud conference.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Lustre Gets Another Backer; Notes from HPC Biomed 2010
Post Date: October 22, 2010 @ 1:11 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss the launch of OpenSFS, a non-profit organization devoted to supporting Lustre for HPC. They also talk about the major themes of this week's Biomed HPC 2010 Conference at Harvard.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Appro Goes After Risky Business; Nimbis Opens Cloud Portal for Desktop Users
Post Date: October 15, 2010 @ 1:45 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss the new Appro server aimed at high frequency trading. HPC in the Cloud editor Nicole Hemsoth reviews the HPC on-demand offerings from Nimbis Services.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: HP Joins GPGPU Party; Rogue Wave Adds Acumen to Portfolio
Post Date: October 08, 2010 @ 2:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss HP's new GPU-equipped server and offer their thoughts on Rogue Wave's continuing buying spree of HPC tool makers.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: A Strategy for Revitalizing US Manufacturing; Tales from HPC 360
Post Date: October 04, 2010 @ 12:51 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael are joined by HPC in the Cloud editor Nicole Hemsoth to discuss the happenings at the HPC 360 Conference in Champaign, Illinois.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Industry Events Target HPC in Financial Services
Post Date: September 30, 2010 @ 10:42 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison, Michael, and special guest Sue Korn discuss the recent conferences that focused on HPC technologies in the financial services industry.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: GPU Computing Hits the Mainstream; Microsoft Launches New Windows HPC Server
Post Date: September 24, 2010 @ 1:43 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about Microsoft's new HPC Server and recap the highlights of NVIDIA's GPU Technology Conference.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Notes from the Intel Developer Forum; Sandy Bridge, Cloud Computing, Graphics and More
Post Date: September 18, 2010 @ 7:09 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael recap the news and happenings from IDF.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Chips are Hot at Hot Chips; Bidding War for 3PAR Heats Up
Post Date: September 13, 2010 @ 2:41 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison recap some of news from AMD, Intel, and IBM at the Hot Chips conference and offer some perspective on Dell's and HP's pursuit of 3PAR.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: HPC Conference Season Kickoff
Post Date: September 13, 2010 @ 2:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison offer their perspectives on the upcoming conferences of interest to the HPC community.

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Michael Feldman Servers Take a Bath; A Pilot to Energize US Manufacturing
Post Date: September 03, 2010 @ 12:43 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss the immersive liquid cooling offering from startup Green Revolution Cooling. Then Addison speaks with Jon Riley from the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences about HPC in manufacturing.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Startup Tries to Beat Odds with Probability Processor; Cray, SGI Spin Their Wheels
Post Date: August 20, 2010 @ 11:37 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss startup Lyric Semiconductor, who emerged from stealth mode this week to unveil a novel processor technology. They also review some of the recent financial struggles of Cray and SGI.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: DARPA Gears Up Ubiquitous HPC Program; Oracle Makes Quiet Exit From HPC
Post Date: August 13, 2010 @ 2:31 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael review DARPA's selections for its UHPC program and discuss why they think Oracle will not be a force in HPC anytime soon.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: High Frequency Trading Shenanigans; Intel Settles Up with FTC
Post Date: August 06, 2010 @ 12:46 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss some recent stories about how high frequency trading may have had a direct hand in the May stock market plunge. They also ponder the significance of Intel's settlement with the FTC.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Lustre Gets a New Champion; GPGPU Gets Its Own Cloud
Post Date: July 30, 2010 @ 12:51 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about Whamcloud, a startup that plans to provide Lustre file system development for the HPC community. They also discuss PEER 1's GPU computing cloud, launched this week at SIGGRAPH.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Flash Storage Startup Makes Play for HPC; Intel, AMD Power Up Earnings
Post Date: July 29, 2010 @ 3:38 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael review the latest good earnings reports from Intel and AMD. They also discuss flash storage vendor Nimbus Data Systems, a newcomer to the HPC space.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Amazon Breaks Into HPC
Post Date: July 21, 2010 @ 4:30 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison are joined by HPC in the Cloud editor, Nicole Hemsoth, to discuss Amazon's launch of its HPC capability for EC2.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Half-Year Retrospective in HPC
Post Date: July 01, 2010 @ 1:30 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about some of the big high performance computing stories and trends over the last six months.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Flash Memory Takes Another Run at Supercomputing
Post Date: June 18, 2010 @ 2:17 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

This week Michael and Chris Willard talk about the latest deployment of flash memory for a new supercomputing cluster at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, and discuss some of the larger issues surrounding SSD and flash technology in HPC.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: HPC Community Weighs in On Exascale; InfiniBand Pumps Up the Volume
Post Date: June 11, 2010 @ 5:22 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about why exascale computing is becoming such a hot topic and offer their perspective on the new InfiniBand roadmap announced last week.

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Michael Feldman Videocast: ISC'10 Winners and Losers, Show Wrap-Up
Post Date: June 07, 2010 @ 6:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael are joined by Nicole Hemsoth, editor of HPC in the Cloud, to offer their impressions of ISC'10.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Highlights from ISC'10 in Hamburg - Intel Gives a Surprise Keynote; GPU Supers Save a Lackluster TOP500
Post Date: June 01, 2010 @ 5:03 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about the biggest news coming out of ISC'10, live from Hamburg.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Cray Names Baker Super, Mellanox, NVIDIA Intro GPUDirect, and T-Platforms Manages RUSNANO
Post Date: May 28, 2010 @ 2:27 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about the upcoming International Supercomputing Conference and a few of the more important news items of the week.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Microsoft Broadens Technical Computing Vision; QLogic Intros Intelligent Fabric Management; IBM Signs On for GPU Computing
Post Date: May 24, 2010 @ 9:13 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk over the top HPC stories of the week, including Microsoft's new technical computing initiative, QLogic's latest InfiniBand fabric management software, and IBM's entry into GPU computing.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Appro Debuts New GPU Offerings; Battery Research Gets Supercharged
Post Date: May 14, 2010 @ 11:55 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss Appro's latest GPU options and also talk about how HPC is helping to put Lithium-air battery research on the fast track.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Algorithmic Trading Whiplashes Markets; SGI Launches New ICE Machine
Post Date: May 07, 2010 @ 12:09 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison talk about what happens when a algorithmic trading hits a nervous stock market. They also review the latest Altix ICE offering from SGI.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Archives Get Active
Post Date: May 02, 2010 @ 10:41 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss the newly launched Active Archive Alliance and review last week's announcement of Panasas' high capacity storage product.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Conference Trio -- Wall Street, Clouds, and Bio IT
Post Date: April 23, 2010 @ 2:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael provide a recap of three HPC-related shows: HPC Linux Financial Markets, Cloud Expo, and Bio-IT World.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: HPC in the Cloud; Cray Cozies Up To ISVs
Post Date: April 16, 2010 @ 12:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael welcome Nicole Hemsoth, managing editor of HPC in the Cloud, and also chew over the latest news from Cray.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Microsoft Embellishes Windows HPC; Itanium's Long Goodbye
Post Date: April 09, 2010 @ 2:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about the latest additions in Windows HPC Server 2008 and rehash the fate of the Itanium CPU.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Intel and AMD Put Their Chips on the Table
Post Date: April 05, 2010 @ 11:05 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael chew over the big CPU news this week and discuss its significance to the HPC server market.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Oracle Ties the Knot with Sun
Post Date: March 27, 2010 @ 9:16 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss the finalization Oracle-Sun merger, the new Volaire InfiniBand-Ethernet bridge, and the INCITE supercomputing awards for 2010.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Cray Adds New Product Line; Increasing Focus on HPC Mid-range
Post Date: March 26, 2010 @ 2:07 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael take look at Cray's new CX1000 offering and discuss the state of the entry-level/mid-range HPC market segment.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Intel Puts Its Chips on the Table
Post Date: March 19, 2010 @ 11:45 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

The team discuss the Intel Westmere EP launch and Addison reviews the HPCC Conference in Newport.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: HPC Strikes Olympic Gold; 3Leaf Gets Start at Florida State
Post Date: March 12, 2010 @ 12:42 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about the role of Exa's CFD software in the US bobsled team's gold medal. They also discuss the significance of 3Leaf's new virtual SMP system at FSU.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: A Trio of HPC Apps
Post Date: March 05, 2010 @ 2:15 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss three HPC-enabled applications that made the news this week: cancer research at Rice University, earthquake impact prediction at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, and brake pedal design at Pratt & Miller.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Cray Awarded Defense Deal; SGI Makes Storage Buy; IBM Invents New Algorithm
Post Date: February 26, 2010 @ 1:48 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss the Cray DoD contract win, the SGI acquisition of storage vendor COPAN Systems, and a breakthrough algorithm from IBM Research.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Cray Closes the Books on 2009; Olympic Supercomputing
Post Date: February 19, 2010 @ 3:21 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Chris Willard and Michael Feldman discuss Cray's year-end financial results and how the company looks for 2010. They also talk about a supercomputing app that may help an Olympic bobsled team capture the gold.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: SGI Builds HPC-Ready Cloud
Post Date: February 12, 2010 @ 12:34 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss SGI's entry into cloud computing and talk with company CEO Mark Barrenechea about their new "Cyclone" service.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: NASA and the NSF Take to the Clouds
Post Date: February 05, 2010 @ 1:23 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about how NASA and the NSF are working to bring science codes to cloud computing.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Verari Redux; Oracle-Sun Merger Clears Hurdle; China's Next Supercomputer
Post Date: January 22, 2010 @ 1:52 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss the Verari's reemergence, the continuing saga of the Oracle-Sun merger, and China's latest effort to develop home-grown supercomputing.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: High Performance Health Care Reform; Dave Turek Interview
Post Date: January 15, 2010 @ 2:14 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss a proposal to reduce heath insurance fraud using ORNL's Jaguar supercomputer. They also talk with IBM's Dave Turek about the decade ahead in HPC.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: People to Watch in 2010
Post Date: January 11, 2010 @ 9:09 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael are joined by Tom Tabor to talk about the HPCwire People to Watch in 2010 list.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Better Times for HPC in 2010?
Post Date: January 08, 2010 @ 4:26 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about the recent acquisition of TotalView Technologies and share their thoughts about how the HPC community will fare in 2010.

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