Latest Exascale Podcast Episodes
Slingshotting to Exascale, It’s Hot!
RadioFreeHPC - March 05, 2020 00:40 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAt the top of this episode, Henry notes that the temperature in his city will be touching -15F, which is plenty cold. However, it’s very good overclocking weather as Dan and Shahin point out. Not quite quantum weather, unfortunately. Cray Slingshot Interconnect We quickly get to the main topic of...
Coronavirus
RadioFreeHPC - February 18, 2020 06:04 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe show starts with our traditional lull, which always follows our initial introductions – when no one knows who should speak first, or prefer not to. However, we quickly regain our footing and get to the major topic of the day: the coronavirus or COVID-19 as the doctors have dubbed it. Shahin ...
Faster Weather, Pizza, Tires
RadioFreeHPC - February 06, 2020 19:33 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAnd High Powered Radio Towers, too The show starts out in the usual way with check ups on the health and happiness of our hosts. Jessi finished a 50-mile race over the weekend, which is admirable, particularly when you consider she was on foot. With a reasonable decent segue, Dan moves the conver...
ZFS, AI for System Design, Power in GCE
RadioFreeHPC - January 28, 2020 10:42 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSurprise! It’s Snowing in Minnesota The show starts on a combative note with Henry refusing to discuss how much snow is arrayed around his house. Dan shares his dream running a snowblower and Henry offers up his house but doesn’t offer airfare, which, assumedly, would be a deal breaker for the ev...
2020 Predictions, Get it?!
RadioFreeHPC - January 15, 2020 21:43 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsShiny Crystal Ball It’s our first episode of 2020, yay! The first that was recorded in 2020 anyway. It’s a predictable 20/20 joke (more of a meh comment really) but the topic today is… PREDICTIONS. More specifically, it’s our predictions of what’s going to happen in the next year. We may not alw...
Quantum, Quantum, Quantum
RadioFreeHPC - January 07, 2020 03:14 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThis episode was recorded back in 2019 but then the holiday episode had to go out during holidays and cut in line, messing up the cogs of the well-oiled machine that is the RFHPC production process. Regardless, the episode starts out with Henry being cranky. It also ends with Henry being cranky. ...
2019 Holiday Episode (video): Family Dinner at RFHPC
RadioFreeHPC - December 31, 2019 03:29 - Video ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIt’s become a tradition at RadioFreeHPC to celebrate the holidays with a video of the holiday episode. The new logo launches the video: celebrating a truly family style dinner and dreaming big (maybe too creatively, however) as the team exchanges “if-only” gifts! Here’s the Director’s Cut version...
South Africa CHPC National Conference
RadioFreeHPC - December 22, 2019 03:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSA Students Get Ready to take ISC by Storm Probably 15% more scintillating than usual, Dan promises as he calls this episode “fantastic”! Now a 5-day conference with two days of workshops as book-ends, multiple tracks and many speakers, and yes, a very exciting Student Cluster Competition, the CH...
SC19: Our Visit to the State Fair
RadioFreeHPC - December 13, 2019 10:37 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSC19 Postview Our show today is all about what we saw at the “State Fair for Nerds” that is SC19. Where there weren’t any livestock shows or supercomputers carved out of butter, there was a lot to see and hear. Shahin talks about the European Processor Initiative and conversations that he had wit...
SC19 Student Cluster Competition – Recap
RadioFreeHPC - November 28, 2019 04:31 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSC19 Student Cluster Round Up The show starts in the usual way, with Henry complaining about snow and us laughing at him. Our special guest, student clusterer extraordinaire Jessi Lanum, complains about recording again with Henry in a definite shot across his bow, to everyone’s amusement. The gr...
New TOP500 List: Spot The Difference
RadioFreeHPC - November 18, 2019 13:46 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsLive from SC19 In this Breaking News edition of RadioFreeHPC, we look over the newly released TOP500 list in all its glory. We talk about the changes in this version of the list (100 new systems, but none in the top 24), how the major countries stack up against each other, and vendor system share...
SC19 Student Cluster Competition – Preview
RadioFreeHPC - November 16, 2019 06:48 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsBlood Sweat Glory, But No Tears “This is a groundbreaking episode of RadioFreeHPC….groundbreaking, I tell you! We have a very special guest, our first post-millennial commentator, Jessi Lanum who is a Student Cluster Competition veteran and is on the show to give us an insider peek at what it’s l...
Truth, Trust, and Deepfakes
RadioFreeHPC - November 12, 2019 16:31 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsYou never write, you never call, you never send flowers “just because.” But that’s ok, we welcome you back to another scintillating episode of Radio Free HPC anyway. Henry is traveling on yet another business trip, lodged in the Washington, DC area, and not even in his favorite hotel chain. But h...
Preview of Supercomputing ’19 – Denver
RadioFreeHPC - November 06, 2019 21:17 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhat’s All Happening at SC19 in Denver? Supercomputing ’19 is coming to Denver this year and who better than Rich Brueckner to give us a sneak peak. Super excited to have Rich and his signature laugh on this show again. In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team reviews the full list of ancillary e...
7 Years, 251 Episodes, 17 Listeners
RadioFreeHPC - November 03, 2019 02:38 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsRadioFreeHPC Celebrates a Number in its Prime Welcome to a historic milestone: Our 251st Radio Free HPC episode! We’re celebrating 251 rather than 250 for a couple of reasons. First, everyone celebrates round numbers and that’s boring. And 251 is round enough for those who crave them. Second, 25...
Fragile: Python, sudo, AI
RadioFreeHPC - October 25, 2019 04:03 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsHow Many Episodes, Did You Say?! The show is geographically skewed today with all three hosts on the west coast. Henry is gracing Seattle with his presence, resulting in plunging coffee inventories and skyrocketing sushi prices. The first item of discussion is a problem in the scientific software...
RISC-V CEO Sees Bright Global Future for Open Source CPUs
RadioFreeHPC - October 18, 2019 00:02 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsRISC-V, Historic Passwords Revealed, End of the World We’re missing Henry S. Newman this week, who is down in Los Cruces inspecting and overseeing the construction of his new crib. Dan and Shahin discuss just how little they’d want to be the general contractor working to build Henry’s house. Henr...
Turing Machine is Sequential, How About a Parallel Machine?
RadioFreeHPC - October 13, 2019 21:00 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSolving Exponential Problems in Polynomial Time Pretty much all of computing rests on the strong foundation of the Turing Machine, a general purpose formulation of computing which happens to be very sequential. It transfers that attribute to the Von Neumann architecture that manifests it and lead...
Quantum Supremacy? Yes and No!
RadioFreeHPC - October 06, 2019 09:06 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsQuantum Supremacy Is and Is Not How quantum is that?! The RadioFreeHPC team discusses the Google/NASA paper, titled “Quantum Supremacy Using a Programmable Superconducting Processor”, that was published and then unpublished. But it’s the internet and everything is a “digital tattoo”, so there are...
FinTech and HPC-AI
RadioFreeHPC - October 01, 2019 05:41 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings@RadioFreeHPC Has Entered The Building First things first, you can call us @RadioFreeHPC now, thanks to our new Twitter account. We decided maybe this social media thing is not a fad after all. We are also pleased to inform you that our Twitter account is almost as heavily followed as the podcast...
RFP Pro Tips
RadioFreeHPC - September 22, 2019 00:06 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe Dos and Donts of RFP Benchmarks In today’s show we only have Dan and Henry on deck, Shahin is away at the “HPC and AI on Wall Street” event where he’ll be hosting various panel discussions. But Dan and Henry soldier on with a discussion based on a recent, and fascinating, presentation by Tric...
Extreme Power and Cooling Efficiency
RadioFreeHPC - September 16, 2019 05:12 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsYes, You Can Be More Efficient! Dan is back from way Down Under bearing intellectual gifts from the recent HPC-AI Advisory Council meeting in Perth. The RadioFree HPC team drills down on one interesting presentation focused on extracting more from power and cooling systems. Take a look at the vid...
IO500 Team Visit
RadioFreeHPC - September 08, 2019 02:29 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIO500 Benchmark Gets Traction Storage is complicated and benchmarking it has too many complexities for the traditional kernel-like or application-specific approaches. Thanks to a few experienced and tenacious researchers, and the community that supports them, the IO500 has managed to put a credib...
The Hottest of Hot Chips Conference
RadioFreeHPC - September 01, 2019 17:50 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe 31st Hot Chips Conference Shahin reports from the Hot Chips conference with Henry and new guest Glenn Heinle, a veteran of AI, HPC, and Storage worlds and currently at Keeper Tech. The team discusses and debates the highlights of the conference and the hottest of the Hot Chips. Here are a few...
Coral is Cray for All
RadioFreeHPC - August 24, 2019 23:29 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsCray Pulls an Exascale Hat Trick Guess who’s having a great year? Think Aurora, Frontier, and El Capitan. Cray has put some nice numbers on the accounts receivable ledger, and these are not ordinary numbers. The Exascale era is being defined substantially by the DOE Coral program and the commerci...
AMD Victory Lap
RadioFreeHPC - August 21, 2019 08:57 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAMD Victory Lap AMD mojo continues as it pushes Moore’s law one more time. RadioFree looks into the AMD Rome CPU, a beast that brings back the glory days of Opteron and establishes itself as the chip to have, and establishes AMD as the company to beat. New Segment: Henry Newman’s Feel-Good Securi...
Who will benefit from Intel dropping Omni-Path?
RadioFreeHPC - August 11, 2019 09:03 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsSpoofing the Spoofers Henry has a brilliant idea to weaponize his password generator against phishing attacks. Intel Drops Omni-Path Henry and Shahin take a close look at the history of High Performance Interconnects, recent news, and how the market is changing profoundly. The departure of Intel ...
Is Our Future Liquid Cooled? Also: Provenance of Surveillance Data!
RadioFreeHPC - August 05, 2019 08:58 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe Veracity and Provenance of Surveillance Data Controversy strikes when news breaks that “Amazon’s home security company Ring has enlisted local police departments around the country to advertise its surveillance cameras in exchange for free Ring products and a “portal” that allows police to re...
Is Cloud Too Expensive for HPC?
RadioFreeHPC - July 30, 2019 07:39 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIs cloud too expensive for HPC? Enquiring minds want to know, as does the HPC community whose single-minded obsession with maximum price-performance is notorious and legendary. The Radio Free team looks at actual cloud pricing based on available data and Dan’s research which fuel a hearty discuss...
Quantum Apps Are Hybrid
RadioFreeHPC - July 23, 2019 08:35 ★★★★★ - 13 ratings“Quantum applications are always and only hybrid” is the quote that Shahin wants you to remember as he gives an update on recent news in Quantum Computing, and especially how to program them. If you’re always going to have to mix classical code with quantum code then you need an environment that ...
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