Latest Exascale Podcast Episodes
HPC Market Eyes $44B in 5 Years
RadioFreeHPC - July 18, 2019 09:09 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsHPC Market Eyes $44B New report from Hyperion Research has the HPC+AI market growing to $44B, with a B, in 5 years. The industry is hitting on all cylinders, benefiting from The ExaScale race, AI coming to the enterprise only to find that it needs, or really is, HPC, depending on your point of vi...
ExaScale is a 4-way Competition
RadioFreeHPC - July 07, 2019 01:18 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsExaScale is a 4-way Competition In this post-ISC show, the RadioFree team discusses Magical cooling technology from Europe. Dan goes over magic beads that draw heat away and can carry-on doing it pretty much forever in a technology from the venerable Fraunhofer Institute and showcased by Lenovo. ...
Why did HPE buy Cray?
RadioFreeHPC - July 03, 2019 18:45 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhy did HPE buy Cray? The RFHPC team tackles the HPE-Cray acquisition as it reviews the companies’ recent moves and strengths and market conditions in the context of: the 5-tier data center application architecture: Embedded, Mobile, Desktop, On-premises, Off-premises the emergence of AI as a mus...
Quantum Computing and HPC
RadioFreeHPC - June 21, 2019 02:11 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsQuantum Computing and HPC Another scintillating and insightful episode of RFHPC is about Quantum Computing and HPC and how the two spaces are evolving and cooperating. We welcome a a distinguished guest with a most suitable background to talk to us about HPC and Quantum Computing. Mike Booth, wh...
TOP500 Jun2019, Facebook Coin
RadioFreeHPC - June 17, 2019 07:48 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe new TOP500 list of most powerful supercomputers is out and we do our usual quick analysis. Not much changed in the TOP10 but a lot is changing further down the list. Here is a quick take: There are 65 new entries in 2019. US science is receiving support via DOE sites and academic sites like T...
Forty+ different AI chips
RadioFreeHPC - June 09, 2019 09:31 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWhat are we going to do with 40+ different AI chips? This week, the team looks at AI chips again, this time motivated by an article in EE Times about once such chip, Graphcore, and touts it as “the most complex processor” ever at some 20 billion transistors. The VC-backed company out of Bristol, ...
Amdahl's Law and GPUs, Asian Student Cluster Competition
RadioFreeHPC - June 03, 2019 06:55 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsResults of the Asian Student Cluster Competition In this episode, Dan has just come back from China and reviews the results of the Asian Student Cluster Competition and HPC workshop. For the first time, a non-mainland-Chinese team wins the top spot. Taiwan takes the gold in part by their stellar ...
In-Memory, Caching, Persistence
RadioFreeHPC - May 03, 2019 20:50 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAsian Student Cluster Competition The ever-popular “calendar segment” is back (yes, that is us being sarcastic) as Dan describes his upcoming trip to Dalian, China for the Asian Student Cluster competition. 20 teams are expected to compete, mostly from mainland China, but also from Europe, South ...
Black Hole Seen, with Data to Match
RadioFreeHPC - April 25, 2019 09:20 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsHere’s this week’s synopsis. Black Holes Visualized The news of the cool visualization of an actual black hole leads to interesting issues in HPC land. Shahin is at pains to give credit where it is due while considering it as an achievement in data visualization not unlike many others before it. ...
Enterprises go HPC, Chips go Open Source, China goes for the top spot
RadioFreeHPC - April 11, 2019 22:17 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe continue to want to make these introductions pretty brief here but not this time, apparently! Here’s this week’s synopsis. Nvidia GTC 2019 announcements We discussed the recent GTC conference. Dan has been attending since well before it became the big and important conference that it is today....
Multicore Scaling Slow Down, and Fooling AI
RadioFreeHPC - March 25, 2019 06:24 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe team has an animated discussion about multicore scaling, how easy it seems to be to mislead AI systems, and some good sized catches of the week. A common thread is “data” as is often the case these days. Dan makes a couple of important announcements. First is the idea that is brewing about re...
AI: Realness and Bias
RadioFreeHPC - March 16, 2019 07:58 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsStarting with this episode, we’ll get a bit more efficient in describing the episodes. Please let us know if you prefer the long format. If you just subscribe on iTunes and never see these words, well, that tells us something too! In this episode, the team discusses AI, bias in AI, and just how r...
Nvidia, Mellanox: Married!
RadioFreeHPC - March 11, 2019 18:41 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsBig news in the industry today was Nvidia buying Mellanox for $6.9B. This called fo an emergency session of our crack panel. While it will be several months before the full impact of this merger is felt, the RFHPC team believes this will change both the HPC and the Datacenter markets. It also sig...
Arm for Exascale is Coming
RadioFreeHPC - March 10, 2019 00:04 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsThe show starts with a brief reference to Henry’s “Gator” nickname, a shout out to listeners 13, 14, and 15, plus a bad Arm processor pun. (Puns are the lowest form of humor other than limericks, Dan wits.) This is an Arm heavy show, with our opening discussion concerning the Arm system at Sandia...
The sinking of the Itanic, a respectful farewell
RadioFreeHPC - March 05, 2019 09:10 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsOur conversation begins with Dan berating Henry for cheaping out on a new headset for our Radio Free HPC recordings. (Henry has since relented and pried open his wallet to purchase a truly fine headset.) Finally, we get on to the show proper. After years of futility, Intel has finally put a stake...
Supercomputing to Modernize the Electric Grid
RadioFreeHPC - February 15, 2019 07:20 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe open the show by talking some weather. It’s so cold at Henry’s house (in Minnesota) that he’s becoming a human superconductor and quantum computing experimenters are showing up at his house to test their systems under uber cold conditions. Shahin adds an inane joke about cold and levitation th...
What's an AI Supercomputer? What's up with software SMP?
RadioFreeHPC - February 11, 2019 18:36 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsWe start our discussion by contemplating the fact that Shahin doesn’t have a middle name (he says he never needed one) and touching on why Henry has picked up the nick name ‘Gator’ Newman. What’s an AI supercomputer? Our first topic is whether a supercomputer can or cannot be a “AI Supercomputer....
China Exascale Again (Tianhe-3 is coming), GDPR shows its teeth
RadioFreeHPC - February 02, 2019 02:22 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsAfter a short talk about the weather in Henry’s basement (it had just reached 60 F by the time we recorded the show), we got right down to business with an important announcement: our pal Rich Brueckner is leaving the show. He just has too much on his plate and something had to give. While… Read...
Weather Forecasting Goes Crowdsourcing, Q means Quantum
RadioFreeHPC - January 25, 2019 10:02 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn this episode of Radio Free HPC, Dan, Henry, and Shahin start with a spirited discussion of IBM’s recent announcement regarding their crowd sourced weather prediction application. Henry was dubious as to whether Big Blue could get access to the data they need in order to truly put out a valuabl...
A Look Back at the 2018 CHPC Conference in South Africa
RadioFreeHPC - December 31, 2018 15:23 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks back at the highlights of the 2018 CHPC Conference in South Africa. With over 500 attendees, the event featured a set of keynotes on high performance computing as well as a Student Cluster Challenge and a Cyber Security Competition. The comprehensive...
RFHPC215: A Hard Look at Santa's Big Data Challenges
RadioFreeHPC - December 28, 2018 18:18 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn this podcast video, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the monumental IT challenges that Santa faces each Holiday Season. With nearly 2 billion children to serve, Santa’s operations are an IT challenge on the grandest scale. If the world’s population keeps growing by 83 million people per year, ...
RFHPC214: A Look at TOP500 Trends on the Road to Exascale
RadioFreeHPC - November 26, 2018 14:25 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at the semi-annual TOP500 BoF presentation by Jack Dongarra. The TOP500 list of supercomputers serves as a “Who’s Who” in the field of High Performance Computing (HPC). It started as a list of the most powerful supercomputers in the world and has evo...
RFHPC213: Running Down the TOP500 at SC18
RadioFreeHPC - November 17, 2018 18:13 ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsIn this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks back on the highlights of SC18 and the newest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers. The latest TOP500 list of the world’s fastest supercomputers is out, a remarkable ranking that shows five Department of Energy supercomputers in the top ...
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