HPCwire Soundbite

In this week's podcast, Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss NVIDIA's acquisition of PGI. They then move on to Raijin, the petaflop supercomputer at Australia National University, touching on how its weather and climate modeling is excellent for its Southern Hemisphere location.

Nicole and Addison interview Intel's Raj Hazra to get his views on Xeon Phi. They delve into the markets reaction to phi as well as the applications that can run on phi at the Milky Way scale.

Addison and Isaac, filling in for Nicole this week, discuss IBM's big data aspirations and this week's story of a senator calling out the rest of congress for not understanding supercomputing.

Nicole and Addison discuss the shift in focus of major companies AMD and Microsoft away from high performance computing, touching specifically on revelations from Nicole's conversation with AMD's Andrew Feldman.

Nicole and Addison discuss the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center and shared memory following the holiday weekend.

Nicole and Addison discuss the release of the Green 500 list, which was topped by an Italian machine, and put a final stamp on last week's ISC conference in Germany.

Nicole and Addison discuss some of the pressing topics at this ISC13 live from Leipzig, Germany. Included among those issues is the possibility of a new benchmark for the Top500, how Intel stole the show, and China's plans for Tianhe-2.

Intersect360's Chris Willard fills in for Nicole as he and Addison discuss the opening day of ISC13 from Leipzig, Germany in this special edition of HPCwire soundbite.

In this special edition of HPCwire Soundbite live from ISC13 in Leipzig, Germany, Nicole and Addison sit down with Top500 founders Horst Simon, Jack Dongarra, Hans Meuer, and Erich Strohmaier to discuss the implications of this year's newly released list and the future trends of the Top500.

Isaac and Addison discuss Intel's big data push and the upcoming International Supercomputing conference in Germany.

Nicole and Addison discuss Nicole's interview with blacklisted T-Platforms' CEO along with Dell's new genomics offering and its contribution to HPC in the life sciences.

Nicole and Addison discuss the implications of the Chinese Tianhe-2 system primed to sit atop next month's Top500 list.

Nicole and Addison discuss a recent congressional hearing on exascale computing and IBM's outlook on HPC.

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.

Nicole and Addison discuss mid-range HPC products, the Japanese exascale initiative and the Irish500 this week.