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HPCwire Soundbite

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:

 Podcast: Blue Waters 2.0; Chip Wars at SC11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 16:31

Conference kicks off with news about NCSA's Blue Waters supercomputer project, the TOP500, and a flurry of processor-related announcements.

 Podcast: Vendors Open New Bag of Supercomputing Toys; A Look Ahead to SC11 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 18:25

Fujitsu, Bull, DataDirect Networks, and Bright Computing make some big news in the lead up the Supercomputing Conference in Seattle.

 Podcast: Supercomputer Tops 10 Petaflops; Good News/Bad News for AMD | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 17:36

The "K Computer" in Japan breaks the 10 petaflop barrier and AMD Fusion debuts in HPC.

 Podcast: Texas Instruments Makes HPC Play; ARM Flexes 64-Bit Muscle | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 23:38

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.

 Podcast: Airbus Embraces HPC-as-a-Service; HPC Vendors Take On Big Data | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 16:24

Airbus is leasing HPC for its engineering design work. And big data is getting more attention from HPC vendors.

 Podcast: Oak Ridge Makes Jaguar Into a Titan; A New Platform for IBM | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:47

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.

 Podcast: Startup Builds 64-core FP Accelerator; Gluster Puts Big Data in Red Hat | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:08

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.

 Podcast: NetApp Adds Lustre to Sequoia Super; HPC Clouds Over Europe | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:08

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.

 Podcast: Texas Super Gives Dell and Intel Big Win; ScaleMP Brings AMD On Board | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 21:00

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.

 Podcast: Addison's Report Card for Digital Manufacturing; WellPoint Pages Dr. Watson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 26:26

A discussion of the various initiative to bring HPC into US manufacturing, and IBM Watson lands a job in health care.

 Podcast: Hitachi Data Systems Buys BlueArc; An Interview with CEO Mike Gustafson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 22:05

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.

 Podcast: IBM Goes Big in Storage; Plus Blue Waters and Black Skies | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 20:46

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.

 Soundbite Taking a Week Off | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:17

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 Podcast: SGI Makes Software Buy; Brainy Chips for a Smarter Planet | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 17:29

SGI acquires OpenCFD and IBM unveils cognitive computing chips. Addison and Michael give us the low down on what it all means.

 Podcast: IBM Dumps Blue Waters; Steve Scott Joins NVIDIA | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 18:36

IBM terminates its multi-million dollar contract to build the Blue Waters supercomputer and Cray CTO Steve Scott joins NVIDIA.

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