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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Addison's Report Card for Digital Manufacturing; WellPoint Pages Dr. Watson
Post Date: September 16, 2011 @ 12:50 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
A discussion of the various initiative to bring HPC into US manufacturing, and IBM Watson lands a job in health care.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Hitachi Data Systems Buys BlueArc; An Interview with CEO Mike Gustafson
Post Date: September 09, 2011 @ 3:24 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael speak with BlueArc CEO Mike Gustafson and the company's director of HPC, Bjorn Andersson, about their company's acquisition. Also a look at how 9/11 impacted high performance computing.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: IBM Goes Big in Storage; Plus Blue Waters and Black Skies
Post Date: September 02, 2011 @ 2:42 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Michael and Addison speculate on NCSA's replacement for the Blue Waters supercomputer. Also, IBM comes up with a 120 PB storage array for an unknown customer, and HPC startup Black Sky Computing preps for its cloud computing play.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: SGI Makes Software Buy; Brainy Chips for a Smarter Planet
Post Date: August 19, 2011 @ 1:35 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
SGI acquires OpenCFD and IBM unveils cognitive computing chips. Addison and Michael give us the low down on what it all means.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: IBM Dumps Blue Waters; Steve Scott Joins NVIDIA
Post Date: August 12, 2011 @ 2:06 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
IBM terminates its multi-million dollar contract to build the Blue Waters supercomputer and Cray CTO Steve Scott joins NVIDIA.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Digital Manufacturing Takes Off; Special Guest Editor John Kirkley
Post Date: August 05, 2011 @ 3:21 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
We speak with John Kirkley, managing editor of Digital Manufacturing Report, to bring us up to date on recent news in advanced manufacturing and high performance computing.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: TeraGrid 2.0; Microsoft's HPC Reorg
Post Date: July 29, 2011 @ 4:20 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
The end of the TeraGrid project marks the launch of its replacement: XSEDE; and Microsoft reshuffles its HPC deck.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: Intel, Dell Buy Into Ethernet; Sergio Novaes Talks About HPC in Brazil
Post Date: July 22, 2011 @ 12:36 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
Addison and Michael discuss Intel's and Dell's plans to acquire two premier Ethernet vendors; and Sergio Novaes, Professor of Physics at São Paulo State University talks about his experiences with HPC in Brazil.
Michael Feldman
Podcast: FPGA Supercomputing in the Money; SGI Preps New ICE Machines
Post Date: July 15, 2011 @ 3:45 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite
JP Morgan speeds up its risk models with FPGAs and SGI redesigns Altix ICE hardware. Plus a question of the week.
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In quieter times, sounding the bell of funding big science with big systems tends to resonate further than when ears are already burning with sour economic and national security news. For exascale's future, however, the time could be ripe to instill some sense of urgency....
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The study of climate change is one of those scientific problems where it is almost essential to model the entire Earth to attain accurate results and make worthwhile predictions. In an attempt to make climate science more accessible to smaller research facilities, NASA introduced what they call ‘Climate in a Box,’ a system they note acts as a desktop supercomputer.
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Building Supercomputers with Raspberries
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At some point in the not-too-distant future, building powerful, miniature computing systems will be considered a hobby for high schoolers, just as robotics or even Lego-building are today. That could be made possible through recent advancements made with the Raspberry Pi computers.
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Running Computational Fluid Dynamics in the Cloud
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When it comes to cloud, long distances mean unacceptably high latencies. Researchers from the University of Bonn in Germany examined those latency issues of doing CFD modeling in the cloud by utilizing a common CFD and its utilization in HPC instance types including both CPU and GPU cores of Amazon EC2.
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Computing the Physics of Bubbles
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Supercomputers at the Department of Energy’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) have worked on important computational problems such as collapse of the atomic state, the optimization of chemical catalysts, and now modeling popping bubbles.
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