IO500 Team Visit
A Podcast on High Performance Computing
by rich
4y ago
IO500 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 credible stake in the ground, and is getting traction, with 101 entries on the current list and expecting many more by SC19. ReadioFreeHPC hosts the IO500 Steering Committee to do a deep dive. “The steering committee is the decision body ensuring the development and curation of the benchmark and its results ..read more
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The Hottest of Hot Chips Conference
A Podcast on High Performance Computing
by rich
4y ago
The 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 notes and images to prepare you for the podcast. AMD CEO Dr. Su’s talk was all about High Performance Computing, used more in its English meaning than a market segment. The evidence that HPC is going mainstream is mounting. TSMC took a perhaps overly literal definition of Moore’s law and talked about ..read more
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Coral is Cray for All
A Podcast on High Performance Computing
by rich
4y ago
Cray 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 commercial markets are watching as their computing needs start looking like those of the national labs. In that context, Cray’s clean sweep makes its leadership in this area very important. All of this is happening as Cray gears up to become what we hope to be an important part of HPE. The last time Cray sold ..read more
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AMD Victory Lap
A Podcast on High Performance Computing
by rich
5y ago
AMD 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 Security Corner Henry typically looks out for you by tracking the week’s most interesting cybersecurity stories. This calls for a new segment on the show. Shahin thinks Henry has deftly branded his “Catch of the Week” and getting himself off the hook for that segment. Certainly looks like it this time. AT&a ..read more
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Who will benefit from Intel dropping Omni-Path?
A Podcast on High Performance Computing
by rich
5y ago
Spoofing 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 from this segment is good news for some, and it remains to be seen what strategy Intel will adopt for the HPC market. Catch of the Week Henry: Henry brings up one his favorite topics (going all the way back to our very first episode): the dreaded Silent Data Corruption, this time as part of the testin ..read more
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Is Our Future Liquid Cooled? Also: Provenance of Surveillance Data!
A Podcast on High Performance Computing
by rich
5y ago
The 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 request footage from these cameras, a secret agreement obtained by Motherboard shows.” The nature of such agreements can, well, garner national attention, as we see here (and do our part). That kind of attention led to the PD cited in the news in Lakeland, FL, to clarify its relationship with Ring, sayin ..read more
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Is Cloud Too Expensive for HPC?
A Podcast on High Performance Computing
by rich
5y ago
Is 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 discussion. They look at configurations, compare prices, talk about the costs that are not included, segment the market, and then segment the applications. Catch of the Week Henry: Henry highlights of the importance of having external 3rd party teams and defined processes (FIPS, Common Criteria, GDPR, etc ..read more
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Quantum Apps Are Hybrid
A Podcast on High Performance Computing
by rich
5y ago
“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 is built for that workflow, and thus we see a lot of attention given to that in the QIS (Quantum Information Science) area. This is reminiscent of OpenGL for graphics accelerators and OpenCL/CUDA for compute accelerators. Henry talks about 5G and how people are starting to get serious bandwidth: 1.8 gb ..read more
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HPC Market Eyes $44B in 5 Years
A Podcast on High Performance Computing
by rich
5y ago
HPC 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 view, and it’s usual, sometimes slow but always steady, growth The big news continues to be AI fundamentally bringing HPC closer to the mainstream of enterprise computing whether it is on-prem, in a co-location facility, or in a public cloud. All of this is starting big changes in the industry. We see th ..read more
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ExaScale is a 4-way Competition
A Podcast on High Performance Computing
by rich
5y ago
ExaScale 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. How pursuit of ExaScale computing is turning into heated competition with the US, China, Japan, and Europe. The European effort is targeting 2 pre-exa installation in the coming months, and 2 actual ExaScale installations in the 2022-2023 timeframe at least one of which will be based on European techno ..read more
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