Michael Feldman Podcast: HPC Trends, Ups and Downs in 2011
Post Date: July 01, 2011 @ 1:20 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael recap the biggest HPC stories and trends for the first half of the year.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: ISC'11 Wrapup- Trends, Winners, Losers
Post Date: June 24, 2011 @ 1:39 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss conference highlights and try to pick out some trends at the show.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: The New Number One on TOP500; Intel Pushes Forward on Manycore Plans
Post Date: June 20, 2011 @ 4:55 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

At the International Supercomputing Conference, Michael and Addison talk about Japan's surprising recapture of the number one system on the TOP500, and discuss how Intel is moving forward on its MIC coprocessor plans.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Vendors, Users Prep for ISC'11; HPC Faithful Head to Hamburg
Post Date: June 17, 2011 @ 10:54 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison cover this week's top stories in the lead-up to the International Supercomputing Conference, and preview some of the happenings at the Hamburg event.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: IBM Gathers HPC Clouds; Real Applications on GPUs; NNSA Makes Appro a Winner
Post Date: June 10, 2011 @ 1:16 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael are joined by HPC in the Cloud editor Nicole Hemsoth to talk about IBM's latest push into high performance computing for private clouds.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Whatever Happened to Personal Genomics? and How High is the High in HPC?
Post Date: June 03, 2011 @ 2:24 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael offer their thoughts on the hype cycle of personal genomics and discuss the results of a recent survey about HPC application scalability.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Quantum Computing Goes Commercial; Cray Unveils GPU Super
Post Date: May 27, 2011 @ 2:54 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

D-Wave sells a quantum computer to Lockheed Martin and Cray pitches its new GPU-equipped supercomputer, the XK6.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: NVIDIA Speeds Up Its GPUs; Adoption Could Follow Suit
Post Date: May 20, 2011 @ 1:01 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

NVIDIA launches a new and improved Fermi Tesla GPU, while AMD introduces a FirePro graphics card for servers. Addison and Michael discuss the prospects for GPU adoption in HPC.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Government Supercomputing Ups and Downs; iPad Supercomputing, No Joke
Post Date: May 13, 2011 @ 7:10 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Cray reports a decent first quarter despite US government spending delays, while European HPC brightens. Also, iPad-based HPC clusters on the drawing board?

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Intel Intros 3D Transistors; HPC Market Rebounds
Post Date: May 06, 2011 @ 2:58 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Encouraging news for the high performance computing market and Intel prepares to bring 3D transistors into production.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Mellanox Brings Up Switch Hitter; ARM Wrestling with x86
Post Date: April 29, 2011 @ 2:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss the new InfiniBand-Ethernet switch silicon from Mellanox and speculate on the adoption of ARM technology by AMD.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: TACC Looks to Intel for Acceleration; SAS Ups Its Analytics Game
Post Date: April 25, 2011 @ 7:48 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss TACC's new interest in Intel's Many Integrated Core accelerator and recap the latest analytics news from SAS Insitute.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: IBM's Power Boost; DDN Moves Into NAS
Post Date: April 15, 2011 @ 11:45 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss IBM's refresh of its Power7 servers and DataDirect Networks' entry into the NAS market.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: High Performance Computing on Wall Street; HPC and Clouds Collide
Post Date: April 12, 2011 @ 11:26 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and guest Peter ffoulkes review last week's HPC Linux on Wall Street Conference

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Michael Feldman Podcast: HPC Conference Catch-Up; Intel Scales Up
Post Date: April 08, 2011 @ 2:14 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael look back at the recent HPCC Conference and OpenFabrics Alliance Workshop. They also discuss the latest Westmere chips launched by Intel this week.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: TOP500 -- There's an App for That; Watson Back in Prime Time
Post Date: April 01, 2011 @ 8:15 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison look into an iPhone-based supercomputer that could end up on the TOP500. Also, the latest exploits of IBM's Watson supercomputer.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Fujitsu Back in the UK; Oracle Dumps Itanium
Post Date: March 25, 2011 @ 11:49 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael talk about Fujitsu's return to the UK as an HPC provider. They also discuss the Oracle-Itanium dust-up and the Spectra Logic's latest tape archive upgrade.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Supercomputing Through the Japanese Disaster; The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
Post Date: March 18, 2011 @ 2:24 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Chris Willard talk about the computer simulation efforts going on behind the scenes during the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: NetApp Returns to HPC; NVIDIA Tesla GPU Sales Accelerate
Post Date: March 11, 2011 @ 1:17 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison comment on NetApp's re-entry into HPC storage and provide an update on NVIDIA's GPU computing momentum.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Commerce Department Gets Behind HPC; Digital Manufacturing Programs Roll Out
Post Date: March 04, 2011 @ 11:59 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison catch up on the latest developments around HPC in manufacturing. Plus the quote of the week.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: America's HPC Gap; The Case for Digital Manufacturing
Post Date: February 25, 2011 @ 1:03 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison talk about the latest InterSect360 study about HPC adoption by manufacturers and preview some announcements in this area expected next week.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Supercomputer Beats Humans at Their Own Game; HPC Vendors on the Comeback
Post Date: February 18, 2011 @ 12:49 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss Watson's big Jeopardy win and talk about two premier HPC vendors that recently reported encouraging financial results.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Man Versus Machine, Jeopardy Champs Take on IBM Super
Post Date: February 11, 2011 @ 2:02 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss the upcoming Jeopardy match with IBM Watson and what will make this such a compelling spectacle.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Obama Cheerleads Science and Innovation at State of the Union; The Politics of HPC
Post Date: February 04, 2011 @ 12:34 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael recap the science and innovation themes at last week's State of the Union address, and discuss the significance of the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act signed into law in December.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Univa Hotwires Grid Engine; Interview with HP's Marc Hamilton
Post Date: January 21, 2011 @ 12:31 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss the latest wanderings of Grid Engine and then speak with Marc Hamilton, HP's vice president of HPC.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: NVIDIA, Intel Take the Chips Off Their Shoulders; An Interview with Whamcloud CEO Brent Gorda
Post Date: January 14, 2011 @ 5:04 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael dissect the Intel-NVIDIA cross-licensing settlement and chat with Whamcloud CEO Brent Gorda about some news on the Lustre front.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: NVIDIA Announces CPU-GPU Strategy
Post Date: January 07, 2011 @ 2:36 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Addison and Michael discuss NVIDIA's newly revealed heterogeneous computing vision and its impact on high performance computing.

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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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Michael Feldman Podcast: The HPC Year in Review
Post Date: December 22, 2009 @ 10:10 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison recap some of big HPC stories and trends in 2009.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Larrabee Work Stoppage; Exascale and Climate Change
Post Date: December 11, 2009 @ 12:56 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison take a look at Intel's cancellation of Larrabee's 2010 debut, and also discuss the relationship between exascale computing and climate change research.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Intel, AMD on the Road to Manycore
Post Date: December 04, 2009 @ 1:33 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss AMD's latest server roadmap and talk about the significance of Intel's new 48-core research chip.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: SC09 Conference Wrap-Up
Post Date: November 23, 2009 @ 6:10 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

In our final SC09 podcast, Addison and Michael highlight the HPC trends they saw at the conference and pick the show's winners and losers.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: SC09 Special Edition from Portland #2
Post Date: November 20, 2009 @ 6:52 AM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss the Al Gore keynote address, Convey's good news, and brain simulation from IBM.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Virtual SMPs; HPC in the Cloud
Post Date: November 06, 2009 @ 1:24 PM, Pacific Standard Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison recap this week's announcements of virtual SMP offerings from 3Leaf Systems and ScaleMP. They also gauge the impact of the "Cloud" phenomenon in HPC and talk about what we might expect to see in this area at SC09.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: China Enters Petaflop Arena; Roadrunner Does Big Science
Post Date: October 30, 2009 @ 1:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison talk about what's been going on with the Roadrunner supercomputer at Los Alamos and discuss the significance of China's entry into the petaflop club.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: HPC 360 Conference; SGI Adds New Partners
Post Date: October 23, 2009 @ 4:11 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss what went on at the recent HPC 360 Conference in Champaign, Illinois and also talk about SGI's two new best buds.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: DOE in the Cloud; Flash Update; FPGAs in a GPU World
Post Date: October 16, 2009 @ 1:34 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison talk about the Department of Energy's new cloud computing experiment, a couple of flash memory developments, and how GPU computing may be changing the prospects for FPGAs in HPC.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Nvdia GPU Technology Conference Recap; Impact of "Fermi" on HPC landscape
Post Date: October 06, 2009 @ 7:31 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

Michael and Addison discuss their impressions of the big news coming out of the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference this week. Michael interviews Nvidia Bill Dalley, Chief Scientist at Nvidia and discusses the future of GPU computing.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: IDF Recap; SGI Personal Supers; Microsoft Buys Interactive Supercomputing
Post Date: September 25, 2009 @ 3:40 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

In the September 25 podcast, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell review the HPC-worthy news at this week's Intel Developer Forum. They also talk about SGI's foray into "personal supercomputing" and discuss the ramifications of Microsoft's acquisition of Interactive Supercomputing.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: HPC on Wall Street Conference Wrap-Up
Post Date: September 18, 2009 @ 12:10 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
Blog: HPCwire Soundbite

In the September 18 podcast, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell discuss the happenings at the High Performance Computing on Wall Street conference and talk with Stanley Young CEO NYSE Technologies, co-CIO of NYSE Euronext.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: OpenCL Perspective; New Supercomputing Network
Post Date: September 14, 2009 @ 10:23 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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In the September 11 podcast, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell talk with PGI compiler engineer Michael Wolfe about the prospects of OpenCL in the parallel programming world. Addison and Michael also discuss the latest supercomputer network project being funded by the NSF.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: EU Holds Up Oracle-Sun Deal; Server Sales Slide; Defense Contractor Layoffs
Post Date: September 04, 2009 @ 12:56 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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In the September 4 podcast, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell discuss the significance of the EU inquiry into the Oracle acquisition of Sun Microsystems. Michael and Addison also talk about continuing shrinkage of the server market and how a shift in US government military priorities is causing some churn for defense contractors.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: This Is a Test
Post Date: September 02, 2009 @ 2:04 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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In the August 28 podcast, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell talk with special guest Christopher Bergstrom about the Cray acquisition of the SiCortex PathScale technology. Michael and Addison also offer their thoughts about the direction of high-end server chips.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Cray Saves PathScale; Server Chip Update
Post Date: August 28, 2009 @ 12:23 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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In the August 28 podcast, Michael Feldman and Addison Snell talk with special guest Christopher Bergstrom about the Cray acquisition of the SiCortex PathScale technology. Michael and Addison also offer their thoughts about the direction of high-end server chips.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Intel Acquires RapidMind; SGI Visualization Strategy Gets Murky
Post Date: August 21, 2009 @ 2:12 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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In the August 21 podcast Michael Feldman and Addison Snell talk with special guest James Reinders about Intel's plans for newly acquired RapidMind. Michael and Addison also discuss the latest rumor regarding SGI and its visualization product strategy.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Russia Falls for HPC; DOE Awarded Stimulus Money; Penguin Adds HPC On Demand
Post Date: August 14, 2009 @ 2:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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In the August 14 podcast Michael Feldman and Addison Snell talk about the Russian government's newfound interest in HPC and how US stimulus money is starting to work its way into the HPC research community. They also pick apart the latest news from Penguin Computing.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Cray Strategy Pays Off; Cluster Resources Expands Market Focus; HPC Helps Restore Moon Landing Videos
Post Date: August 07, 2009 @ 11:57 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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In the August 7 podcast Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss why Cray has been doing so well in a tough economy. They also talk about Cluster Resources' new focus beyond HPC and how NVIDIA Tesla GPU technology helped restore some lost moon landing videos.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Algorithmic Trading Angst; SGI Roadmap Redux
Post Date: July 31, 2009 @ 5:29 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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In this week's podcast Chris Willard and Michael Feldman discuss a number of controversies surrounding the use of high frequency trading. They also take a few minutes to rehash the SGI Ultraviolet story.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: SGI Update; Japan Stays with Fujitsu for Next-Gen Super; Storage Vendor Consolidation
Post Date: July 24, 2009 @ 1:25 PM, Pacific Daylight Time
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In this week's podcast Chris Willard and Michael Feldman discuss the latest rumors and news surrounding SGI, the status of the Japanese multi-petaflop project, and some recent consolidation in the storage space.

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Michael Feldman Podcast: Cray's New Mini-Super; Half-Year Retrospective
Post Date: July 17, 2009 @ 10:13 AM, Pacific Daylight Time
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In this week's podcast Addison and Michael talk with Cray CEO Peter Ungaro about the company's new CX1-LC deskside supercomputer and discuss the top HPC stories for the first half of 2009.

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