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Summary: A weekly podcast hosted by Nicole Hemsoth, Editor of HPCwire, and Addison Snell, General Manager of Tabor Research. Nicole and Addison break down the week"s most compelling news and offer their own unique perspectives on how these stories affect the HPC industry.
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Podcasts:
Conference kicks off with news about NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer project, the TOP500, and a flurry of processor-related announcements.
Fujitsu, Bull, DataDirect Networks, and Bright Computing make some big news in the lead up the Supercomputing Conference in Seattle.
The "K Computer" in Japan breaks the 10 petaflop barrier and AMD Fusion debuts in HPC.
TI is looking to push its latest DSP chips into the HPC realm and ARM will soon have 64-bit processors. Also, China has announced a new petaflop supercomputer with homegrown microprocessors.
Airbus is leasing HPC for its engineering design work. And big data is getting more attention from HPC vendors.
Oak Ridge's Buddy Bland and Jim Hack join the show to discuss ORNL's upcoming Titan supercomputer. Plus Addison and Michael talk about the significance of IBM's plans to acquire of Platform Computing.
Addison and Michael talk about Adapteva's latest manycore design and discuss the significance of Red Hat's plans to buy Gluster. Also, a look back at Steve Jobs.
NetApp wins its first big storage contract in supercomputing, while Europeans gather for the latest developments in HPC cloud and grid computing. Plus Russia puts its exaflop stake in the ground.
Addison and Michael talk about TACC's upcoming 10-petaflop supercomputer, which will be equipped with Intel's manycore accelerators. Also, ScaleMP adds Opteron support and a wrapup of the HPC Financial Markets event.
A discussion of the various initiative to bring HPC into US manufacturing, and IBM Watson lands a job in health care.
Addison and Michael speak with BlueArc CEO Mike Gustafson and the company's director of HPC, Bjorn Andersson, about their company' acquisition. Also a look at how 9/11 impacted high performance computing.
Michael and Addison speculate on NCSA's replacement for the Blue Waters supercomputer. Also, IBM comes up with a 120 PB storage array for an unknown customer, and HPC startup Black Sky Computing preps for its cloud computing play.
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SGI acquires OpenCFD and IBM unveils cognitive computing chips. Addison and Michael give us the low down on what it all means.
IBM terminates its multi-million dollar contract to build the Blue Waters supercomputer and Cray CTO Steve Scott joins NVIDIA.
