Podcast: A New Top of the Top500; ISC Kicks Off in Leipzig
Post Date: June 17, 2013 @ 6:51 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Intersect360's Chris Willard fills in for Nicole as he and Addison discuss the opening day of ISC13 from Leipzig, Germany in this special edition of HPCwire soundbite.

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Podcast: A Conversation with the Founding Fathers of the Top500
Post Date: June 17, 2013 @ 7:00 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

In this special edition of HPCwire Soundbite live from ISC13 in Leipzig, Germany, Nicole and Addison sit down with Top500 founders Horst Simon, Jack Dongarra, Hans Meuer, and Erich Strohmaier to discuss the implications of this year's newly released list and the future trends of the Top500.

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Podcast: Intel Ushers Lustre into the Mainstream; A Look Ahead to Germany and ISC13
Post Date: June 14, 2013 @ 2:11 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Isaac and Addison discuss Intel's big data push and the upcoming International Supercomputing conference in Germany.

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Podcast: T-Platforms CEO Responds to US Blacklist; Dell Boxes Up HPC for Life Sciences
Post Date: June 07, 2013 @ 2:02 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Nicole and Addison discuss Nicole's interview with blacklisted T-Platforms' CEO along with Dell's new genomics offering and its contribution to HPC in the life sciences.

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Podcast: Chinese Scale Top500 Wall; Preparing for a New No. 1 at ISC
Post Date: May 31, 2013 @ 2:52 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Nicole and Addison discuss the implications of the Chinese Tianhe-2 system primed to sit atop next month's Top500 list

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Podcast: Exascale Equals No Nukes; IBM Says "Let's Build a Smarter HPC"
Post Date: May 24, 2013 @ 4:31 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Nicole and Addison discuss a recent congressional hearing on exascale computing and IBM's outlook on HPC.

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Podcast: Horst Simon Says; Google and NASA Take Quantum Leap
Post Date: May 17, 2013 @ 1:51 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Nicole and Addison continue to discuss the exascale race in light of Horst Simon's recent Q-and-A and consider the possibilities of D-Wave's quantum computer.

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Podcast: New HPC Products in the Mid-Range and A Strong Yen for Exascale
Post Date: May 10, 2013 @ 3:10 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Nicole and Addison discuss mid-range HPC products, the Japanese exascale initiative and the Irish500 this week.

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Podcast: End Users Speak Up on Accelerators and Leadership Changes in HPC
Post Date: May 02, 2013 @ 2:43 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

This week Nicole and Addison discussed the growing trend of accelerators and leadership changes in HPC, including Intel's new CEO.

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Podcast: ISC13 Preview and A Look Ahead at HPC Trends to Watch
Post Date: April 26, 2013 @ 11:21 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

This week Nicole and Addison discussed the upcoming ISC13 conference and HPC trends to keep an eye out for, like interconnects.

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Podcast: Supers, Part II and The Upgrade, The Successor, and The Classified
Post Date: April 19, 2013 @ 12:20 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Nicole and Addison discussed Indiana University's upgrade to Big Rad II and moving Seqouia to classified work.

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Podcast: A Red X on T-Platforms and Taking an Axe to Exascale
Post Date: April 12, 2013 @ 12:12 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

This week Addison and Nicole talked about a red x on T-Platforms and taking an axe to Exascale.

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Podcast: Top 10 Insights for 2013 and Roadrunner's Retirement Party
Post Date: April 05, 2013 @ 12:08 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Nicole and Addison discussed the top 10 insights for 2013 and the retirement of Roadrunner.

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Podcast: Flipping on Flops and I Dedicate this Supercomputer to Science
Post Date: March 29, 2013 @ 11:00 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Nicole and Addison discussed flipping on flops and I dedicate this supercomputer to science.

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Podcast: GPUs in San Jose and Xeon Phi in France
Post Date: March 22, 2013 @ 8:43 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Nicole and Addison discussed GPUs in San Jose and Xeon Phi in France.

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Podcast: HPC on the Brain; NREL's Energy Efficient Data Center
Post Date: March 15, 2013 @ 2:20 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Richard and Addison discuss the NIH's initiative to map the brain along with NREL's new HP and Intel-powered green HPC facility.

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Podcast: Mellanox Opens Up Ethernet; Sequestering Science and Research
Post Date: March 08, 2013 @ 1:35 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Richard discuss how the sequester affects HPC research as well as Mellanox getting into the open Ethernet game.

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Podcast: Titan's Troubles at Oak Ridge; An Interview with Xyratex's Mike Stolz
Post Date: March 01, 2013 @ 1:10 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison joins Richard from the Oil and Gas HPC workshop at Rice University to discuss Titan's acceptance test at Oak Ridge. Also included is an interview with Xyratex's Mike Stolz.

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Podcast: Xyratex Buys Up Lustre Assets; UK Launces New HPC Center
Post Date: February 22, 2013 @ 2:31 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael Feldman returns to Soundbite this week to discuss Xyratex's acquisition of Lustre and a new British HPC Center with Richard Brandt.

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Podcast: HPC and Cleaner Energy; Gearing Up for ISC
Post Date: February 15, 2013 @ 2:12 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Richard and Addison discuss the new focus on greener IT practices in HPC along with the upcoming ISC conference.

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Podcast: UK Ramps Up Supercomputing; Dell Buys Dell
Post Date: February 08, 2013 @ 1:42 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Richard and Addison discuss the new supercomputing initiatives in the UK as well as the private buy-out of Dell

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Podcast: Two New Accelerated Supers; The EC Looks at the Cost of Cloud
Post Date: February 01, 2013 @ 12:18 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Richard discuss Atipa's new supercomputer and the cost trends in cloud.

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Podcast: HPCwire People to Watch in 2013
Post Date: January 25, 2013 @ 2:42 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Guest host Tom Tabor, Richard Brandt and industry insider Addison Snell discuss the 2013 HPCwire 12 People to Watch list; Tom introduces Richard as the new editor of HPCwire.

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Podcast: US Labs Team Up On Pre-Exascale Supers
Post Date: January 18, 2013 @ 1:23 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael offer some perspective on the Department of Energy's latest plans for their exascale roadmap.

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Podcast: Encanto Cluster To Be Sold for Parts; A One-Off Supercomputer to Map the Universe
Post Date: January 11, 2013 @ 1:45 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

The much-ballyhooed Encanto HPC cluster is destined to be split up and sold. And a custom-made supercomputer is built for an international radio telescope project.

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Podcast: Top HPC Stories of 2012; A Look Ahead to 2013
Post Date: January 04, 2013 @ 1:52 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison recap the year in HPC and look ahead to 2013.

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Podcast: BP Preps for Petascale Machine; HPC Peers Over Fiscal Cliff
Post Date: December 14, 2012 @ 1:35 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about a new petascale supercomputer that British multinational BP is planning to install. They also discuss the possible fallout in the HPC community if the US government goes over the "fiscal cliff.

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Podcast: HPC Acceleration Looks For Elusive Standard; Password Cracking, GPU-Style
Post Date: December 07, 2012 @ 3:15 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

OpenMP takes a shot at accelerator support and password cracking gets a big boost, thanks to a GPU cluster.

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Podcast: What China's New Leadership Means for HPC; The Race to Exascale
Post Date: November 30, 2012 @ 12:56 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael offer some perspective on what China's revamped leadership might mean to the country's HPC efforts. They also discuss why the US DOE is extending its timeline for exascale computing.

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Podcast: Recap from Supercomputing Conference
Post Date: November 20, 2012 @ 2:53 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael review some of the more newsworthy announcements that took place last week at SC12.

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Podcast: AMD Troubles; SC12 Winners and Losers
Post Date: November 16, 2012 @ 2:58 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

AMD is rumored to be looking for a buyer. And, as SC12 wraps up, Addison and Michael suggest some of the big winners and losers from the conference.

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Podcast: Accelerator Triple Play; TOP500 Results
Post Date: November 14, 2012 @ 12:27 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss the trio of HPC accelerators announced on Monday, and review the latest TOP500 list.

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Podcast: Cray CEO Explains Appro Buy
Post Date: November 12, 2012 @ 12:24 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Peter Ungaro lays out the strategy of Cray's acquisition of Appro.

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Podcast: Cray Shakes Up Supercomputing Biz; A Look Ahead to SC12
Post Date: November 09, 2012 @ 2:40 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Cray launches Cascade line of supercomputers, then buys Appro for good measure. Also, an SC12 gets ready to roll.

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Podcast: AMD Takes up ARMs; Titan Your Seat Belts
Post Date: November 02, 2012 @ 12:16 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

AMD to add 64-bit ARM to server chip portfolio; and ORNL installs its new 27 petaflop supercomputer.

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Podcast: You've Got Big Data in My HPC; You've Got HPC in My Big Data
Post Date: October 26, 2012 @ 11:37 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael chat about how the upcoming US election cycle could impact the science and technology community. And big data continues to make inroads into HPC.

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Podcast: Penguins With ARMs; NVIDIA Launches CUDA 5
Post Date: October 19, 2012 @ 11:14 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Penguin comes up with its first ARM-based server platform. And NVIDIA makes CUDA 5.0 official.

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Podcast: There's a New Big Red in Town; What's a Prefix Worth?
Post Date: October 12, 2012 @ 1:28 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and HPC in the Cloud editor Tiffany Trader talk about Indiana University's new Cray supercomputer and the HPC community's penchant for 1000X increments.

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Podcast: Adapteva Kick-starts Funding; The Politics of HPC
Post Date: October 05, 2012 @ 3:49 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about Adapteva's pursuit of micro-investors and the impact of the presidential politics on high performance computing.

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Podcast: Security; Data movement and Applications; ISC Cloud Recap
Post Date: September 28, 2012 @ 11:59 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and HPC in the Cloud editor Tiffany Trader review the happenings at the recent ISC Cloud Computing Conference in Mannheim, Germany.

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Podcast: Dell Preps Stampede Servers; Panasas Launches ActiveStor 14
Post Date: September 21, 2012 @ 11:25 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Dell announces its new C8000 series servers and Panasas unveils its 5th-generation NAS appliance.

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Podcast: Xeon Phi, Exascale and Networking Fabrics; Insights from the Intel Developer Forum
Post Date: September 14, 2012 @ 12:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Intel talks up HPC at its developer forum and outlines a fabric interconnect strategy for next-generation microprocessors.

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Podcast: Big Compute, Little Energy; Wall Street Monopolizes Software Talent
Post Date: September 07, 2012 @ 11:28 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

A DOE lab with a new state-of-the-art datacenter is deploying a petaflop supercomputer from HP. And a new book looks at how Wall Street cornered the market on algorithm talent.

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Podcast: Feds Suck the Energy Out of SC12; Intel Has Open MIC Day at Hot Chips
Post Date: August 31, 2012 @ 11:59 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

The DOE and some other US federal agencies are looking to shrink their presence at SC12. And Intel reveals more details about its upcoming Knights Corner processor.

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Robert Gelber Podcast: Petabyte in a Flash; Coprocessors Reach a New Epiphany
Post Date: August 24, 2012 @ 1:03 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Nimbus Data Systems launches its latest all-flash storage array and Adapteva samples its latest 64-core accelerator.

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Podcast: Solid State Startup Looks to Shake Up Industry; Flash Forward for Storage
Post Date: August 17, 2012 @ 10:56 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Skyera offers inexpensive enterprise storage system based on consumer flash and IBM makes bid to acquire solid-state storage vendor Texas Memory Systems.

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Podcast: Teraflop GPUs Aplenty; High Frequency Trading Goes Haywire
Post Date: August 10, 2012 @ 11:49 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

NVIDIA and AMD offer up teraflop GPUs for workstations. And high frequency trading gets another black eye.

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Podcast: Supercomputing without Side Effects; Israel Welcomes a Baby Super
Post Date: August 03, 2012 @ 11:21 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss a new way supercomputing can speed up drug discovery. Also, a new SGI cluster at an Israeli research institute underscores the nation's small HPC footprint.

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Podcast: Supercomputers Moving Up Down Under; Mellanox Rises on InfiniBand Gains
Post Date: July 27, 2012 @ 12:06 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about a trio of new supercomputers for Australia and the latest surge in InfiniBand's prospects.

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Podcast: Whamcloud Under New Ownership; Intel Adds to Exascale Portfolio
Post Date: July 20, 2012 @ 12:19 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Brent Gorda and Boyd Davis talk about Intel's Whamcloud acquisition; Addison and Michael discuss the ramification of the deal.

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Podcast: Energy Department Kickstarts Exascale Effort; DOE Presses Fastforward for Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and Whamcloud
Post Date: July 13, 2012 @ 12:21 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

The Department of Energy signs up Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, and Whamcloud for exascale research under its "FastForward" program. Addison and Michael discuss the ramifications.

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Podcast: Google Takes on Amazon EC2; NASA Reworks Cloud Strategy
Post Date: July 06, 2012 @ 11:58 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Google jumps into the Infrastructure-as-a-Service business and NASA backs away from OpenStack development. HPC in the Cloud Editor Tiffany Trader catches us up on the latest news.

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Podcast: Lawrence Livermore and IBM Team Up Again; Cray Pre-Sells Another Cascade Supercomputer
Post Date: June 29, 2012 @ 1:36 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Lawrence Livermore is installing a 5-petaflop IBM Blue Gene/Q for use by industry partners and NERSC signs up for a 2-petaflop Cray Cascade super for 2013.

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Podcast: InfiniBand Hits 100G; Winners and Losers at ISC'12
Post Date: June 21, 2012 @ 10:43 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael wrap up the news from ISC'12 and pick the event's winners and losers.

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Podcast: US Recaptures TOP500 Title; Intel MIC Gets Its Own Brand
Post Date: June 20, 2012 @ 6:16 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

At ISC'12 in Hamburg, Addison and Michael review the new TOP500 results and discuss Intel's latest MIC moves.

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Podcast: TOP500 Brain Trust Gathers for 20th Anniversary of List
Post Date: June 17, 2012 @ 8:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

In this exclusive interview, Hans Meuer, Erich Strohmaier, Jack Dongarra, and Horst Simon discuss why performance of the world's top 500 supercomputers has increased so rapidly and so constantly over the years, and consider whether this will continue to be the case through the current petascale era and beyond.

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Podcast: SGI, Xyratex Refresh HPC Offerings; ISC'12 Preview
Post Date: June 15, 2012 @ 11:10 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael review SGI's new UV 2 supercomputer and Xyratex' second-generation Lustre storage platform. They also preview next week's happenings at ISC'12 in Hamburg.

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Podcast: AMD Revs Up Bulldozer; New HPC User Site Survey
Post Date: June 08, 2012 @ 12:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about AMD's latest Opterons and Intersect360's new HPC user site survey.

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Podcast: ARM Charts Path Into Big Data; A Tragic Loss for the HPC Community
Post Date: June 01, 2012 @ 12:09 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

ARM servers in the news and HPC loses one of its own.

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Podcast: HP Downsizes; Fujitsu Gears Up for Growth
Post Date: May 25, 2012 @ 12:06 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

HP announces plans to shed 8 percent of its workforce, while Fujitsu looks to expand its HPC presence in Europe and elsewhere.

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Podcast: NVIDIA's Kepler Debuts in HPC; Intel Adds to Chip Count
Post Date: May 18, 2012 @ 10:56 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

NVIDIA pushes Kepler into HPC and beyond. And Intel adds three new families of Xeon chips.

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Podcast: The Zettaflops Dilemma; Emulex, Myricom Takes Aim at InfiniBand
Post Date: May 11, 2012 @ 12:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Chris Willard and Michael discuss Thomas Sterling prediction that conventional HPC will probably reach the end of the line in the exascale era. Plus Emulex and Myricom team up for a high performance networking play.

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Podcast: Convey Hybrid-Core 2.0; Software Updates for Multicore and Cloud
Post Date: May 04, 2012 @ 11:46 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison talk about the recent upgrade of Convey's "Hybrid-Core" offering, and review a couple of middleware developments from eXludus Technologies and Bright Computing.

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Podcast: Cray and Intel Make $140M Interconnect; An Interview with CEO Peter Ungaro
Post Date: April 27, 2012 @ 2:57 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk with Cray CEO Peter Ungaro about the impending sale of his company's interconnect hardware technology to Intel.

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Podcast: Cray Names New CTO; A Cloudy Week in HPC
Post Date: April 20, 2012 @ 1:37 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Cray's new CTO, the latest HPC cloud provider, and a big HPC cloud use case tops this week's news.

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Podcast: Petascale Plays Processor Derby; Glacial Advancement in Energy Efficiency
Post Date: April 13, 2012 @ 11:34 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael review the processor jungle in petascale supercomputing and discuss why advancements in energy efficiency aren't keeping pace with HPC.

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Podcast: NVIDIA Heckles Intel Over MIC; April Fools News
Post Date: April 06, 2012 @ 11:31 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

NVIDIA takes Intel to task for its manycore programming story. And some HPC stories only an April Fool would believe.

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Podcast: Missing Middle, Global HPC, and Exascale at HPCC
Post Date: March 30, 2012 @ 1:02 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael wrap up the happenings at the High Performance Computer and Communications Council (HPCC) Conference in Newport, Rhode Island.

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Podcast: NVIDIA's Got Game with Kepler; NSA Finds There are No Secrets in Supercomputing
Post Date: March 23, 2012 @ 11:52 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

NVIDIA launches its first "Kepler" GPUs and the NSA supercomputing gets some unwanted attention.

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Podcast: HP Has a Corona; Moab Takes Aim at Commercial HPC
Post Date: March 16, 2012 @ 11:13 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael take a look at HP Labs' 10-teraflop manycore processor and discuss the latest Moab release from Adaptive Computing.

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Podcast: Intel Makes Sandy Bridge Chips Street Legal; IBM Closes Super NOAA Deal
Post Date: March 09, 2012 @ 11:30 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Intel launches the new 8-core Xeon CPUs and IBM nabs a huge win at NOAA for HPC hardware and support.

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Podcast: Cray Pivots to Big Data; AMD Wades Into SeaMicro Acquisition
Post Date: March 02, 2012 @ 12:31 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Cray launches its first supercomputer-powered big data applicance and AMD buys microserver maker SeaMicro.

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Podcast: Platform Computing Turns Blue; Cray Makes China Connection
Post Date: February 24, 2012 @ 1:44 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Platform Computing GM Peter Nichol talks about life under IBM and Cray opens up new subsidiary in China.

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Podcast: Europe Doubles Down on HPC; HP Loads Up for Sandy Bridge
Post Date: February 17, 2012 @ 11:48 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

The European Commission put forth a plan to double HPC funding during a week that saw a raft of top-end supercomputers announcements around the world.

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Podcast: Cray Bites Into Big Data; AMD Commits to Open Hetero Standard
Post Date: February 10, 2012 @ 12:11 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Cray launches a new division targeting big data apps and AMD offers a heterogeneous computing standard for the masses.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Cray Revamps Mini-Super Offerings; A Peek at AMD's New Roadmap
Post Date: February 03, 2012 @ 11:14 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Cray offers a new mini-supercomputer configuration based on its XE6/XK6 line, while AMD forges ahead with its CPU-GPU-APU strategy.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Intel Buys Into InfiniBand; What it Means for QLogic, Mellanox and HPC
Post Date: January 27, 2012 @ 1:33 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss the ramifications of Intel's plans to acquire QLogic's InfiniBand business.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: The Shining Stars of HPC; People to Watch in 2012
Post Date: January 24, 2012 @ 12:32 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael are joined by HPCwire publisher Jeff Hyman to talk about the publication's 2012 People to Watch list.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Fish and Chips; Chinese Takeout
Post Date: January 20, 2012 @ 1:25 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss Russell Fish's CPU-DRAM chip and China's latest FeiTeng microprocessor for HPC.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Supercomputing with a Social Conscience; The $1,000 Genome
Post Date: January 13, 2012 @ 11:29 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss a new volunteer computing grid with a mission to support charities, and talk about the impact of the latest DNA sequencing machines.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: More Petaflops in 2012; Is it Sustainable?
Post Date: January 06, 2012 @ 1:56 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael look ahead to some of the top double-digit petaflops supercomputers scheduled for deployment in 2012. They also look at how the troubling state of the world economy might impact the prospects of HPC growth in the coming year.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: A Look Back at the Year in HPC; A Look Ahead to 2012
Post Date: December 26, 2011 @ 10:06 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael review the most significant stories and trends of 2011 and look ahead to next year.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: GPU Technology in the Far East; HPC 360 in the Midwest; SGI CEO Heads North
Post Date: December 16, 2011 @ 12:37 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss the GTC Asia and HPC 360 events and offer their perspectives on the resignation of SGI CEO Mark Barrenechea

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Supercomputing Welcomes Flash Gordon; Possible Q4 Slump in HPC
Post Date: December 09, 2011 @ 10:22 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss the launch of Gordon, SDSC's new data-intensive supercomputer. Also, Addison offers some guidance on why HPC revenue might take a hit in Q4.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: IBM Adds New Dimension to Computer Memory; Supercomputing for Home Heating
Post Date: December 02, 2011 @ 11:27 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

IBM's 3D chipmaking technology to debut in memory devices. Also, a novel use for servers: data furnaces.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Top Products, Technologies and Vendors in HPC; The HPCwire Readers' and Editors' Choice Awards
Post Date: November 23, 2011 @ 7:37 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss some of the standout HPC companies, products, and technologies selected by the readers and editors of HPCwire.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Big Data Rains Down on Seattle; Green500 Goes Blue; SC11 Winners and Losers
Post Date: November 18, 2011 @ 12:44 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

The weekly wrap-up of SC11 highlights the rise of big data, the latest Green500 results, and winners and losers from the show.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Blue Waters 2.0; Chip Wars at SC11
Post Date: November 16, 2011 @ 12:37 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Conference kicks off with news about NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer project, the TOP500, and a flurry of processor-related announcements.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Vendors Open New Bag of Supercomputing Toys; A Look Ahead to SC11
Post Date: November 11, 2011 @ 2:29 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Fujitsu, Bull, DataDirect Networks, and Bright Computing make some big news in the lead up to the Supercomputing Conference in Seattle.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Supercomputer Tops 10 Petaflops; Good News/Bad News for AMD
Post Date: November 04, 2011 @ 12:25 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

The "K Computer" in Japan breaks the 10 petaflop barrier and AMD Fusion debuts in HPC.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Texas Instruments Makes HPC Play; ARM Flexes 64-Bit Muscle
Post Date: October 28, 2011 @ 3:57 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

TI is looking to push its latest DSP chips into the HPC realm and ARM will soon have 64-bit processors. Also, China has announced a new petaflop supercomputer with homegrown microprocessors.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Airbus Embraces HPC-as-a-Service; HPC Vendors Take On Big Data
Post Date: October 21, 2011 @ 12:59 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Airbus is leasing HPC for its engineering design work. And big data is getting more attention from HPC vendors.

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Michael Feldman RAMCloud: When Disks and Flash Memory are Just Too Slow
Post Date: October 20, 2011 @ 6:44 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Research project uses DRAM as the basis of datacenter storage..

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Oak Ridge Makes Jaguar Into a Titan; A New Platform for IBM
Post Date: October 14, 2011 @ 1:58 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Oak Ridge's Buddy Bland and Jim Hack join the show to discuss ORNL's upcoming Titan supercomputer. Plus Addison and Michael talk about the significance of IBM's plans to acquire of Platform Computing

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Michael Feldman Another Computer Legend Passes Into the History Books
Post Date: October 13, 2011 @ 5:42 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Dennis Ritchie, designer of the C language and co-developer of UNIX, dies at the age of 70.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Startup Builds 64-core FP Accelerator; Gluster Puts Big Data in Red Hat
Post Date: October 07, 2011 @ 2:10 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about Adapteva's latest manycore design and discuss the significance of Red Hat's plans to buy Gluster. Also, a look back at Steve Jobs.

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Michael Feldman Steve Jobs: The Seymour Cray of Personal Computing
Post Date: October 06, 2011 @ 5:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

As these two computing pioneers demonstrated, one person can shape an entire industry.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: NetApp Adds Lustre to Sequoia Super; HPC Clouds Over Europe
Post Date: September 30, 2011 @ 1:15 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

NetApp wins its first big storage contract in supercomputing, while Europeans gather for the latest developments in HPC cloud and grid computing. Plus Russia puts its exaflop stake in the ground.

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Michael Feldman Flash Forward
Post Date: September 29, 2011 @ 6:21 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: From the Editor

Solid state storage vendors are making a frontal assault on the hard disk establishment in the datacenter.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Texas Super Gives Dell and Intel Big Win; ScaleMP Brings AMD On Board
Post Date: September 23, 2011 @ 4:24 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about TACC's upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer, which will be equipped with Intel's manycore accelerators. Also, ScaleMP adds Opteron support and a wrapup of the HPC Financial Markets event.

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