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Milan, Milan, Milan
RadioFreeHPC - March 17, 2021 13:01 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThis is a breaking news edition of Radio Free HPC, so you should play some dramatic and exciting music while you listen to this episode. Wait, don’t do that, we want you to actually hear the episode. So just hum something exciting while you listen. In this special episode, we break down AMD’s new...
Radio Free HPC: Cerebras, EPCC and Chippewa Falls Remodel
RadioFreeHPC - March 07, 2021 17:08 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsRadio Free HPC: Cerebras, EPCC and Chippewa Falls Remodel We have a full crew for this wide-ranging episode of RFHPC. We start with a discussion of the new Cerebras and HPE based supercomputer slated for the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center in, well, Edinburgh. We talk some feeds and speeds f...
Big Changes at Intel: Gelsinger Takes the Helm
RadioFreeHPC - February 08, 2021 15:49 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsBig changes at Intel: Gelsinger Takes the Helm Our main topic today is Intel, with the bulk of the discussion surrounding the return of Pat Gelsinger as Intel’s new CEO. Pat was a 30 year veteran of Intel before he let to pursue other, well, pursuits – most notably as CEO of VMware. While at… Re...
From the Vault: Radio Free HPC on Pig Brains
RadioFreeHPC - February 07, 2021 17:08 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsFrom the Vault: Radio Free HPC on Pig Brains This week Jessi, Henry, and Dan discuss computer-brain interfaces and how Elon Musk’s Neuralink has recently done this with a pig. Surprisingly, we have some concerns about this, primarily security and control. What kind of EULA would this type of bra...
Digital D-Day: SolarWinds Hack
RadioFreeHPC - January 09, 2021 20:59 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOur main topic for this episode is the SolarWinds hack. This is the worst digital hacking incident to date and will have repercussions for many years. As many as 18,000 SolarWinds customers may have downloaded the hacked update and opened themselves up to digital mayhem and thievery. This include...
We’re Back! High Performance Christmas Episode
RadioFreeHPC - December 29, 2020 19:54 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAfter a late fall hiatus, Radio Free HPC is back, baby. This is our holiday episode and we start by pledging to be 29% more scintillating in the new year, which is a significant bonus for listeners if we can hit that mark. The theme of the show is HPC: High Performance Christmas. We left… Read M...
RISC-V Deep Dive, CTO Interview
RadioFreeHPC - October 04, 2020 21:29 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsRISC-V Deep Dive, CTO Interview In this special edition of Radio Free HPC, we interview Mark Himelstein, RISC-V International Chief Technical Officer. In the discussion, we look at RISC-V from all angles, discussing how the opensource ISA is being used today and how it might be used tomorrow. A...
Liqid Gets Hot, NSF Billion for AI
RadioFreeHPC - October 01, 2020 16:25 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe have our full staff for this show – first time in a long time. We start out with introductions….Henry still lives in a survivalist compound in Las Cruces, NM, Jessi is still on crutches, and Shahin is still living in the smokey Silicon Valley. Jumping right into our topic: DOD is getting two ...
Special Fun-tastic Double Episode
RadioFreeHPC - September 23, 2020 15:23 - Video ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe’re finally starting to cut into our product backlog and, as a first, we’re presenting our special road trip double episode where Jessi and Dan traveled to the House of Henry, buried deeply in Las Cruces, New Mexico. We visit his rammed earth compound and recorded two RFHPC episodes there – and...
SiFive’s Big Score, Will Nvidia Buy Arm?
RadioFreeHPC - September 07, 2020 18:13 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe start out with our personal pledge that all of our content is new and not pre-recorded. That’s our gift to you – no recycled, reused or Amazon Renewed content. Jumping into our first topic, Risc-V IP and silicon purveyor SiFive earned a $61 million investment from a group of high-end investors...
MLperf Wars & AMD’s Gawdy Numbers
RadioFreeHPC - September 01, 2020 14:39 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSummer inventory clearance days for Radio Free HPC! We’re blasting through our processing backlog and getting the episodes out as fast as possible (but no faster). In this episode, we talk about the spate of MLperf benchmarks and how AMD hit it out of the park on their most recent earnings. We st...
Is Amazon’s Graviton2 Ready for Prime (Time)?
RadioFreeHPC - July 26, 2020 19:48 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe show starts on a high note, with Henry’s audio being amazingly echo free. Usually we hear a lot of echo as Henry talks, which is due to the rammed earth walls of his new abode, plus the fact that there isn’t any carpeting or anything else to absorb his nasal tones. But somehow Henry… Read Mor...
ISC, Student Cluster Competition Recap
RadioFreeHPC - July 21, 2020 09:31 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsISC20 Smashing Online Success The RadioFreeHPC team looks back at the success that ISC20 was and discusses what attending an online-only conference was like. Big kudos and thanks to the ISC team who pulled off one grand challenge of re-planning and did it so well! Shahin offers his reflections on...
The Persistence of Memory
RadioFreeHPC - July 14, 2020 23:41 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIntel Optane Memory Nothing says HPC like having the performance cake and eating it too. In this episode, we drill down on what Intel is doing with their cool Optane tech, shooting for speeds that remind you of memory, sizes that look like storage, and costs that make it look like a deal, with re...
Is it Time for Virtual GPUs?
RadioFreeHPC - July 04, 2020 00:09 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsVMware’s Bitfusion and Dell We start with team introductions, as usual, but drop a bombshell on listeners: we’re going to be missing Jessi for the next couple of months as she goes off to Marine Officers Candidate School – or as she calls it “screamy summer camp.” It’s sort of like an all-inclus...
NSF, QIS Funding, But First…
RadioFreeHPC - June 30, 2020 21:06 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings18th Listener Awards! Run-of-the-mill start as we introduce the team. Henry has quite a bit of echo since he’s now firmly ensconced in his rammed earth survival compound. Big news this week! We finally received our 18th email in our first ever RadioFreeHPC email-to-win contest. First, let’s see w...
@HPC_Guru Speaketh! Kind of.
RadioFreeHPC - June 19, 2020 16:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOur Guest Today is… In this extraordinary episode of Radio Free HPC, the crew interviews the industry icon that is @HPC_Guru. This is the first time that anyone has been granted an interview with him and we’re proud to have been chosen for this honor. We posed an even dozen questions and received...
HPC on the Edge
RadioFreeHPC - June 13, 2020 00:02 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsNew Book Makes Sense of Edge Computing After our typical inane opening, which includes an update on Henry’s Las Cruces bunker with 21” rammed earth walls, we get quickly down to business and begin our interview with very special guest, Dr. Cody Bumgardner, Assistant Professor of Pathology & Labo...
A is for Ampere, Nvidia A100’s Public Debut
RadioFreeHPC - June 01, 2020 22:27 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsNOTE: The publication of this episode was delayed due to the untimely passing of our partner and pal Rich Brueckner. So what we’re announcing as “breaking news” isn’t so fresh today, but our takes on what NVIDIA’s new A100 processor brings to the table are still valid. Breaking News! This spe...
Tribute to Rich Brueckner, 1962-2020
RadioFreeHPC - May 27, 2020 15:45 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsby Dan Olds This is a tough blog to write for this RadioFreeHPC episode. This is the episode where we say a final goodbye to our co-founder and comrade in arms Rich Brueckner. Rich passed away suddenly last week leaving us shocked and shaken. The whole genesis of RFHPC came out of Rich and I… Rea...
Debate This: Server Sales Up 30% in Q1, Says Analyst Firm
RadioFreeHPC - May 18, 2020 22:37 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe start off with an update from our crew. Jessie is at Purdue putting her belongings into storage in order to clear out her current abode. Shahin is doing fine, all quarantined up down in Silicon Valley. Henry has big news: he’s completed his north-south journey and is now staying in a hotel ve...
ColdQuanta Serves Up Some Bose-Einstein Condensate
RadioFreeHPC - May 08, 2020 06:03 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe show starts with Dan, Jessi and Shahin in attendance. Henry is traveling from his old home base in Minnesota to his new command bunker in lovely Las Cruces, NM. Last we heard he was in Kansas City and making good time. We’re not sure how long we’re going to have to do without him… Read More »...
What Good Did It Do? Quite a Lot, and Quite the Story
RadioFreeHPC - May 02, 2020 07:16 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsA typical show opening, but we’re missing Henry – he was away packing for his big move from his long-time home base in Minnesota to his new bunker in Las Cruces. He’s packing up all of his memorabilia, like his first punch card sets, his core memory collection and his home terminal, lovingly wrap...
Honeywell Traps, Zaps Ions for Science
RadioFreeHPC - April 24, 2020 18:39 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsDan starts this episode with, as usual, an introduction of the cast. Henry reports that he’s only three weeks away from his epic move from Minnesota to Los Cruces, New Mexico. Trapping Those Unruly Ions We quickly move to our main topic: Honeywell’s Trapped Ion Quantum computing initiative. Sha...
SIHOGLIC: The Life & Times of Charles Babbage
RadioFreeHPC - April 21, 2020 22:13 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsRadioFreeHPC Studios Presents Slightly Inaccurate History of Great Leaps in Computing (SIHOGLIC) Edition One In this groundbreaking production, RadioFreeHPC Studios reenacts dramatic moments in the life of computing genius Charles Babbage. We breath life into his early days, his many battles and ...
AI in Science. When is it real?
RadioFreeHPC - April 15, 2020 07:02 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe fire up the show with introductions and a little snippiness on Dan’s part. Henry reports that the weather in Minnesota is nearly human. AI in Science Jumping into our main topic, Shahin introduces an article from HPCwire interviewing Argonne’s Associate Laboratory Director Rick Stevens about h...
Supercomputers Battle Corona
RadioFreeHPC - April 08, 2020 05:01 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe conversation today begins with discussing how long it will take until Henry moves into his rammed earth Los Cruces bunker. For those of you keeping track at home, the correct answer was 41 days at the time of taping, which, by the time the podcast is out will probably be “a couple of weeks… R...
Climbing El Capitan? Details Detailed!
RadioFreeHPC - March 31, 2020 21:14 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSupercomputer Leaps to New Peaks At the top of the show we discuss whether Indiana (where Jessi is located at Purdue) is in the heartland or not. We all agree that it is and, yes, Jessi sees Larry Bird all the time. Getting into the heart of the episode, Dan talks about the briefing he… Read Mor...
One Big Debate over OneAPI
RadioFreeHPC - March 17, 2020 00:39 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsFor RadioFreeHPC aficionados, it’s a typical opening for this episode. Henry is counting down the days until he moves to sunny Los Cruces and we have a lull in the conversation right after the introductions. We recover quickly and move onto the main course of today’s show: Intel’s OneAPI project ...
Let’s Learn Deeply about Extreme Weather
RadioFreeHPC - March 09, 2020 18:52 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThis week we have Dan, Jessi, and Shahin on the call. Henry is off in Los Cruces overseeing construction of what can only be called a bunker. Why? Its main feature is 21-inch rammed earth walls, guaranteed to withstand withering heat waves, cold snaps, and probably any high caliber round. We spec...
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