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The Helicarrier: When Movies Ignore Natural Law from 2023-09-26T15:23:14
We’ve all been there – Sitting inside a movie theater, fully engrossed in the film, when suddenly something happens on screen that is so far-fetched t...
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A Better Life: The Case for Cloud from 2023-07-06T18:12:42
With high performance cloud computing usage expanding quickly in research & development, there are still some organizations who hesitate to dip a toe. In this...
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The Computational Science of Drug Development from 2022-11-15T11:11
At the beginning of 2020, while a pandemic of epic proportions shut down most of the world, the life sciences industry was kicked into high gear, pushing to do wh...
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A Cloud Startup Story (Part 2) from 2022-04-12T10:11
More than a decade ago, a young Joris Poort stepped into a small Silicon Valley apartment for the first time, ready to make an impact on the world. What wou...
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A Cloud Startup Story (Part 1) from 2022-03-29T10:11
Amazon started as a bookseller. BloomNation was founded with money won in a Poker tournament. The creator of Paul Mitchell hair products was homeless ...
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How to Tell Your Family About HPC from 2021-12-21T11:11
For those working with high performance computing in any capacity, sometimes talking about it with your family can be a little… confusing. And with t...
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Protecting Football Players’ Brains from 2021-11-30T11:11
It hasn’t even been two decades since the discovery was made -- Small repetitive hits to the head over time accumulated in football games and practices can ...
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At the Heart of Simulation (Part 2) from 2021-11-16T11:17
In the last episode, we were introduced to Tom -- a man who was flung into a medical twilight zone of heart issues and the procedures to fix them. In this c...
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At the Heart of Simulation (Part 1) from 2021-11-02T10:11
Tom was a healthy, athletic man in his 50s when he was suddenly struck with an unexpected heart issue -- One that hundreds of thousands of people experience each ...
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Flying Cars: From Cloud to Cloud from 2021-10-19T10:11
For decades, mankind has been enamored with the idea of flying cars -- we’ve seen them in movies, read about them in books, and longed to see them in the sk...
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AI: Hollywood vs Reality (Part 2) from 2021-10-05T10:11
Is the singularity really around the corner? And when it hits, will we be surrounded by task-fulfilling artificial intelligence beings like in the 2004 movie, iRobot, or will we be shipped acros...
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AI: Hollywood vs Reality (Part 1) from 2021-09-21T10:11
Beginning nearly a century ago, Hollywood movies have portrayed artificial intelligence on the big screen… er… at least what they Listen
Weathering Water on Mars from 2021-06-29T10:11
From reports of UFO (or UAP) sightings across the globe to scientists scouring the universe for signs of extraterrestrial life, humankind has been searching for p...
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Digital Twins Will Change the World from 2021-06-08T11:11
Imagine you had a digital twin -- a computational model of yourself with not only all of your physical and physiological characteristics uploaded into it in real ...
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Preventing Airplane Engine Explosions from 2021-05-18T11:11
We’ve seen it on the news multiple times -- Engines exploding mid-flight on commercial aircraft, raining metal debris on anything and anyone below. Th...
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The Hack that Stopped a Country from 2021-04-22T21:36
What if hackers were able to instantly cripple grocery stores, businesses, banks, hospitals, public transit, power plants, and government offices? While you...
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The SolarWinds Hack: Worst Case Scenarios from 2021-03-23T11:11
Never before has a hack of this sophistication and scale been seen. But now that 18,000 organizations are considered breached, what can the hacked informati...
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The SolarWinds Hack: What Happened? from 2021-03-02T11:11
It was a dark day in cybersecurity when the world realized that the largest and widest reaching data breach in history had hit over 18,000 companies and organizat...
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From Supercomputing to Supersonic from 2021-02-11T11:11
It’s been about two decades since the Concorde flew passengers across the Atlantic at supersonic speeds, and if it were still in operation today, a ticket w...
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Rethinking HPC in Academia from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Gabriel Broner hosts Marek Michalewicz, Director of ICM, the HPC center at the University of Warsaw to discuss Rethinking HPC in Academia. With the advent of HPC cloud platforms, we may give every ...
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How Supercomputing Touches the World(s) from 2020-12-22T11:11
From the case on your phone to rovers on Mars to vaccines -- supercomputers have played a role in just about everything around us. And many of those project...
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Tsimulating Tsunamis from 2020-12-08T11:11
In 1908, the largest earthquake ever recorded in Europe hit Southern Italy, wiping out the entire coastal town of Messina. Once the shaking had stopped, survivors...
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The Power of Plants to Pulverize Coronavirus from 2020-11-12T11:27
What if that plant on your desk could hold the key to stopping your stuffy nose? From morphine to chemotherapy drugs, plants have played a vital role in dev...
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The Clever Coatings of Coronavirus from 2020-10-20T14:23
It’s been months since the infamous coronavirus has crept across the globe, closing schools and workplaces and changing the way we live our lives. But...
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How COVID-19 Spreads Indoors from 2020-09-29T17:28
Welcome to Series #2 of the Big Compute Podcast! Ever wondered how COVID-19 can spread through the air indoors? Is 6 feet apart enough distance? ...
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FedRAMP, GPUs and the future of Federal Agency Computing from 2019-11-20T06:09
Kevin Kelly hosts Christopher Chang, Computational Scientist and Acting HPC User Program Lead at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. They discuss the incredible capability of scalabl...
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HPC and Diversity: Life lessons from Irene Qualters from 2019-05-30T20:27
Gabriel Broner hosts Irene Qualters to discuss her career and the evolution of HPC. Irene, an HPC pioneer, went from being a young female engineer working with Seymour Cray to become president o...
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HPC and Genomics Revolutionize Medicine from 2019-05-16T17:44
Gabriel Broner hosts Mark Borodkin, COO of Bionano Genomics, to discuss how genomics and HPC enable doctors and researchers to diagnose complex diseases and prescribe unique personalized treatme...
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Quantum Computing from 2019-04-25T20:22
Gabriel Broner hosts Steve Reinhardt to discuss Quantum Computing. Listen to the conversation covering what are quantum computers, what problems can be solved orders of magnitude faster than wit...
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Innovation in Antenna Design from 2019-04-11T16:00
In this Big Compute Podcast episode, Gabriel Broner hosts Mike Hollenbeck, founder and CTO at Optisys. Optisys is a startup that is changing the antenna industry....
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Accelerating HPC Workflows with AI from 2019-03-28T06:32
In this Big Compute Podcast episode, Gabriel Broner hosts Dave Turek, Vice President of HPC and Cognitive Systems at IBM, to discuss how AI enables the accelerati...
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Boom Supersonic – Pushing Boundaries in Aerospace Design from 2019-03-14T20:58
Gabriel Broner interviews Josh Krall, the CTO of Boom Supersonic. Boom is designing the next generation of supersonic airliners using HPC that is entirely in the cloud, replacing the decommissio...
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New Architectures in HPC from 2019-02-26T22:19
Host Gabriel Broner interviews Mike Woodacre, HPE Fellow, to discuss the shift from CPUs to an emerging diversity of architectures. Hear about the evolution of CPUs, the advent of GPUs with incr...
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