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Episode 364: Insights from SC23 from 2023-12-08T23:50:24

Addison Snell, Dan Olds, and Steve Conway take a look back at SC23, including NVIDIA’s chart climb, Aurora’s swing and miss, the AI story, and the evolution of liquid cooling.

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Episode 363: Rialto Bridge Has Fallen Down / U.S. and UK Supercomputing Wish Lists from 2023-03-17T01:29:14

Addison Snell is joined by Tiffany Trader and Oliver Peckham for a discussion of Intel's cancellation of the Rialto Bridge GPU.

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Episode 362: Intel’s Long-Awaited Launch; MI300 Takes the Stage from 2023-01-27T00:45:11

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Oliver Peckham discuss Intel's long-awaited launch, plus MI300.

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Episode 361: Catching Up with Conference Chair Candace Culhane at SC22 from 2023-01-25T21:50:28

Tiffany Trader interviews SC22 Conference Chair Candace Culhane about the evolution of SC and this year's event.

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Episode 360: Ventana Opens Window for RISC-V in HPC / DoD Gives JEDI a New Hope from 2023-01-25T17:51:05

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader are joined by Oliver Peckham and Steve Conway in this wrapup of the top HPC stories from 2022.

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Episode 359: AMD, Intel, and TOP500; Welcome to SC22 from 2022-11-18T23:27:25

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Oliver Peckham talk over the top stories of SC22.

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Episode 358: Looking Ahead to SC22; Take the HPC Covid Safety Pledge from 2022-11-02T23:40:06

Addison Snell is joined by Tom Tabor and Ari Berman for a discussion of the upcoming SC22 and the HPC Covid Safety Pledge.

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Episode 357: US Passes Signature Chips and Science Act; Oak Ridge National Lab Dedicates Frontier from 2022-09-12T18:53:38

Episode 357: US Passes Signature Chips and Science Act; Oak Ridge National Lab Dedicates Frontier by Intersect360 Research

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Episode 356: Around the World at ISC; Rounding up the Top Stories from 2022-06-01T20:23:55

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Oliver Peckham share their favorite stories coming out of ISC22: EuroHPC updates, the International Association of Supercomputing Centers, and the Cloud services ...

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Episode 355: The Exascale Era Officially Arrives; TOP500 Kicks Off ISC22 from 2022-05-31T22:08:33

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Oliver Peckham cover the top stories coming out of ISC22 this week, including Frontier's exascale success and interesting new technologies topping the Green500 list.

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Episode 354: Intel's Vision for AI and Exascale; Kookaburra Sits in IBM's Quantum Tree from 2022-05-20T22:08:08

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Intel's AI and Exascale announcements, plus quantum news from IBM out of Australia.

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Episode 353: NNSA Invests to Advance Omni-Path; HPE Takes Swarm Learning to the Edge from 2022-05-10T22:28:21

This week, Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Oliver Peckham discuss news from the NNSA, HPE, and the future of machine learning.

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Episode 352: Cooler HPC With Verne Global from 2022-04-15T19:25:38

Addison Snell and Verne Global's CEO Dominic Ward and CTO Tate Cantrell discuss greener HPC, datacenter colocation, and the advantages of sustainable geothermal heating and cooling in this special...

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Episode 351: A Hopper full of news at GTC; and EuroHPC Summit Week from 2022-04-05T00:08:18

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader analyze the news out of NVIDIA GTC 2022 as well as EuroHPC Summit.

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Episode 350: Nvidia Acquires Excelero; New Consortium Aims to Connect Chiplets from 2022-03-11T23:59:13

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Oliver Peckham discuss the details of Nvidia's Excelero acquisition and who is in (and who is not in) the newly-announced UCIe Consortium.

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Episode 349: Atos Unveils Exascale Architecture / Intel Affirms Upcoming Advancements from 2022-02-26T01:29:39

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Oliver Peckham discuss the details of Atos' newly-announced Exascale architecture, Intel's latest plans, and the Winter Classic Student Cluster Competition.

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Episode 348: Meta's New AI Supercomputer / Lenovo Launches HPC as a Service from 2022-02-03T23:25:35

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Oliver Peckham discuss the latest supercomputing announcements out of Meta and Lenovo.

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Episode 347: Nvidia Acquires Bright Computing ... And Defends Intended ARM Purchase from 2022-01-20T03:05:56

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader analyze Nvidia's acquisition of Bright Computing, plus the details of their proposed ARM purchase.

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Episode 346: HPCwire and Intersect360 Research Wrap up SC21 at the Dell HPC Community Meeting from 2022-01-20T02:24:41

Episode 346: HPCwire and Intersect360 Research Wrap up SC21 at the Dell HPC Community Meeting by Intersect360 Research

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Episode 345: No News is Big News in TOP500 List from 2021-11-16T17:22:27

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Oliver Peckham delve into the new TOP500 list at SC21, which may be more notable for what's missing — Frontier and the two Chinese exascale system — than for what...

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Episode 344: AMD Stacks its Chips with All-In Launch / NVIDIA Makes an Omniverse of Announcements from 2021-11-16T06:14:18

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader delve into this week's big announcements from AMD and NVIDIA in advance of SC21.

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Episode 343: AMD's Next Instinct; Intel's HPC Re-Org from 2021-11-10T23:50:58

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss AMD's latest announcement, Intel's re-org, and lead-up events to SC21.

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Episode 342: The Most Unusual SC Conference Since Last Year from 2021-11-04T22:14:15

Addison Snell interviews Bronis de Supinski, SC21 General Chair, about the opportunities, changes, and talks to look forward to at the upcoming SC21 conference.

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Episode 341: Dell Lands NNSA CTS-2 Contract; NCAR Prepares for Derecho from 2021-10-13T01:06:14

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Dell's NNSA contract, plus NCAR's Derecho announcement.

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Episode 340: Polaris Lights the Way Toward Exascale/IBM Enables Hybrid Cloud from 2021-09-23T02:25:20

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Argonne's new Polaris system, plus IBM's IBM hybrid cloud Power10 server.

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Episode 339: Atos Acquires Nimbix; Intel Adopts LLVM for Future Development from 2021-08-17T00:06:50

Addison Snell is joined by John Russell for a discussion of Atos' acquisition of Nimbix and Intel's latest news.

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Episode 338: Intel Does a Number on Node Names; Cornelis Forges a New Omni-Path from 2021-07-31T00:05:06

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Intel's announced change in naming systems and Cornelis' Omni-Path announcement.

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Episode 337: Top500, Keynotes, and More; Highlights from ISC2021 from 2021-07-12T20:25:31

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader share highlights of the ISC 2021 conference, their takeaways from the new Top 500 list, and more.

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Episode 336: Pulling Rocky Out of a Red Hat; Latest HPC Market Numbers from Intersect360 from 2021-07-01T00:44:42

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader analyze the latest entrant into the Linux space, plus the new market model and forecast just released by Intersect360 Research.

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Episode 335: "Future Supercomputers" at ISC from 2021-06-24T18:49:29

HPCwire Managing Editor Tiffany Trader interviews Jean-Marc Denis, European Processor Initiative (EPI) Chair of the Board and Head of Strategy at Atos, about EPI activities and his upcoming ISC tal...

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Episode 334: Catalyst UK Project Showcases ARM from 2021-06-16T15:48:56

In this special episode sponsored by HPE, Addison Snell speaks with Simon McIntosh-Smith, Professor of High Performance Computing at the University of Bristol, Mark Parsons, Director of EPCC and Pr...

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Episode 333: NERSC's Perlmutter Says 'Hello, World'; Does HPC Point to COVID Lab Leak? from 2021-06-11T02:07

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Oliver Peckham discuss the launch of NERSC's new Perlmutter system, plus news from an Australian research team that lends credibility to the theory that COVID-19 ...

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Episode 332: HPC at UAB from 2021-05-19T23:53:30

Addison Snell is joined by Ralph Zottola and John-Paul Robinson of the University of Alabama at Birmingham for a discussion of UAB's new Dell HPC system.

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Episode 331: IBM Research Demos 2 Nanometer Process; AMD, Design Thyself from 2021-05-18T00:15:26

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader are joined by Oliver Peckham for a discussion of IBM's 2 Nanometer chip and AMD's design announcement.

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Episode320: Microsoft Serves Up Supercomputing to UK Met Office; Cerebras Cooks Up Second-Gen Wafer from 2021-05-12T00:01:47

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Microsoft's announcement as prime vendor for four HPE Cray supercomputers headed to the UK's Met office and analyze Cerebras' second-gen wafers.

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Episode 329: Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2021 from 2021-05-10T23:45:24

Addison Snell is joined by Marek Michalewicz of the University of Warsaw for a discussion of the upcoming Supercomputing Frontiers Europe virtual conference.

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Episode 328: Intel Launches Ice Lake; Nvidia Looks Ahead to Project Grace from 2021-04-23T22:02:47

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the big news this week out of Intel and Nvidia.

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Episode 327: Intel's New Foundry Business; Cleveland Clinic Goes Quantum from 2021-04-07T23:59:42

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the strategy behind Intel's newly-announced foundry business, plus quantum news out of the Cleveland clinic.

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Episode 326: The AMD Epyc 7003 processor; welcome to Milan from 2021-03-18T20:54:31

Addison Snell, Dan Olds, and Tiffany Trader discuss AMD's launch of Epyc "Milan."

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Episode 325: Rice Oil and Gas Conference Highlights; Oak Ridge Pursues Universal Runtime from 2021-03-12T20:39:13

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Dan Olds discuss the highlights of last week's Rice Oil and Gas Conference, plus news out of Oak Ridge National Lab.

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Episode 324: Insights From Our New Chief Research Officer; New HPC Leadership at HPE and Dell from 2021-03-05T23:36

Addison Snell is joined by Intersect360 Research's new Chief Research Officer Dan Olds for a discussion of their recent webinar and survey results; plus, personnel changes at HPE and Dell.

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Episode 323: Livermore's Lab Rabbit; AI Tsunami Warnings from 2021-02-26T00:11:57

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the new lab "rabbit" at Lawrence Livermore Labs, plus an exciting new safety advance in tsunami warnings from Japan's RIKEN.

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Ep 322: USAF Aims High with Twin Weather Forecasting Supercomputers/NASA Launches AI...In Spaaace! from 2021-02-19T18:10:06

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the Air Force's launch of twin weather-forecasting supercomputers and consider the challenges of bandwidth in space.

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Episode 321: Feedback Loops and MachoFlops — Dr. Anne Fitzpatrick Joins Me This Week in HPC from 2021-01-27T17:12:03

Addison Snell welcomes Dr. Anne Fitzpatrick of the DoD in an interview about her chapter in the newly-released book, "Feedback Loops: Pragmatism about Science and Technology (Postphenomenology and ...

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Episode 320: HPE GreenLake Takes HPC Cloud On-Prem / How the U.S. Can Do More in Supercomputing from 2020-12-23T01:08:46

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss HPE's GreenLake on-prem announcement and new initiatives in US Supercomputing sphere.

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Episode 319: Keynotes, Panels, Announcements, and Awards ... Wrapping up a Virtual SC20 from 2020-11-26T01:14:55

Addison Snell is joined by Tiffany Trader and Oliver Peckham for a wrap-up discussion of SC20.

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ThisWeekinHPC Ep 318: Top500 Highlights from a Virtual SC20 / Nvidia and AMD Grab Early Headlines from 2020-11-16T23:36:36

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the TOP500 list, big announcements from AMD and Nvidia, plus other Supercomputing news.

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Episode 317: Happy Exascale Day! / HPE Maintains Supercomputing Momentum from 2020-10-29T20:56:22

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Exascale Day activities and HPE's run of installations.

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Episode 316: October GTC Brings NVIDIA News Flurry / DoD runs Liqid from 2020-10-15T00:39:12

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discus NVIDIA's GTC news, plus the latest Liquid announcement from the DOD.

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Episode 315: Marvell Takes ThunderX3 off the Commodity Shelf; Catalog Brings Its DNA to HPC from 2020-09-18T00:11:37

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader consider the meaning of Marvell's Thunder X3 play and ponder the feasibility of DNA-based computing.

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Episode 314: Looking Ahead to a Virtual SC20 from 2020-09-08T20:50:36

Tiffany Trader interviews SC20 Conference Chair Christine Cuicchi and Vice Chair Becky Verastegui on the conference's virtual plans for this year.

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Episode 313: You Can Still Get a Cray from HPE; Will You Be Able to Get an ARM from Nvidia? from 2020-08-11T02:35:02

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discus HPE's decision to retain the Cray brand, and rumors of Nvidia's interest in Arm.

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Episode 312: Intel Slips 7 Nanometers; SC20 Goes Virtual from 2020-08-04T02:00:46

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Intel's latest delays, Intersect360 Research's newly-released HPC market model and forecast, and Supercomputing 2020 going virtual.

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Episode 311: Expanding Use Cases for High Performance Computing from 2020-07-17T22:43:05

Addison Snell talks with DDN's Kurt Kuckein and James Coomer about acquisitions and expanding use cases in HPC on a special episode sponsored by DDN.

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Episode 310: Japan's Fugaku Supercomputer Races to #1; Highlights from TOP500 and ISC2020 from 2020-07-01T01:20:30

Addison Snell and TIffany Trader discuss the top stories coming out of ISC20, including Japan's Fugaku supercomputer, the TOP500 and Green500 lists, and the winners of the Student Cluster Competition.

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Episode 309 - Racism and HPC from 2020-06-25T21:26:17

Where does racism exist in the HPC industry in America? What can the industry do to combat it? Can HPC technology be used to help alleviate the affects of racism? Addison Snell is joined by an al...

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Episode 308: Third Generation Xeon Scalable; Intel Floats News Raft on Cooper Lake from 2020-06-23T01:03:07

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss some of the first news to come out of the ISC20 news cycle, including Intel's Cooper Lake announcement.

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Episode 307: Addressing Flexibility in HPC from 2020-06-16T23:05:39

Addison Snell is joined by Bill Wagner, CEO of Bright Computing, for a discussion of scalability, flexibility, and changes to the industry in 2020.

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Episode 306: NCSA Adds Delta Above Blue Waters; Pittsburgh Conceives New AI Architecture from 2020-06-12T18:46:40

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader take a look at the NSF award for the new NCSA system, the decreasing size of HPC Innovation awards, and Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Neocortex system.

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Episode 305: $100 Billion for NSF Expansion; COVID-19 HPC Consortium Spreads to Europe from 2020-06-09T01:23:54

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the proposed expansion of the NSF to include AI, HPC, and quantum computing, plus the new European supercomputing initiative to battle COVID-19.

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Episode 304: Hats Off: Remembering Rich Brueckner from 2020-05-28T22:54:04

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader are joined by Tom Tabor in remembering Rich Brueckner.

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Episode 303: NVIDIA Amps Up Its GPUs; Hacking Epidemic Hits European Supercomputers from 2020-05-22T23:19:52

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss NIVDIA's virtual GTC conference and the outbreak of hacking targeting European supercomputing centers.

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Ep.302: Modeling COVID by State; JEDI Strikes Back Against Coronavirus; NVIDIA-Mellanox Acquisition from 2020-04-30T23:15:04

Addison Snell is joined by Tiffany Trader and Oliver Peckham for a discussion of several new fronts in the supercomputing battle against COVID-19, plus NVIDIA finalizes its acquisition of Mellanox.

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Episode 301: Battling COVID-19 at Lawrence Livermore National Lab from 2020-04-10T23:33:22

Addison Snell is joined by special guest Jim Brase, Computing Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, for a discussion of the efforts by LLNL and other supercomputing centers to defeat...

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Episode 300: HPC Responds to COVID-19; Intersect360 Research Adjusts Forecast Downward from 2020-03-30T22:59:13

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader highlight the HPC industry's efforts to devote cycles to the fight against COVID-19, and Intersect360 Research revises its 2020 market forecast downward in response...

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Episode 299: Supercomputing Takes on the Coronavirus from 2020-03-14T00:27:05

Addison Snell is joined by special guest Carlo Cavazzoni, senior staff member of CINECA, for a discussion of CINECA's part in the coordinated European supercomputing effort to fast-track a viable d...

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Episode 298: Another Exascale Win for AMD; Highlights from the Rice Oil and Gas Conference from 2020-03-11T03:04:10

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the details of AMD's El Capitan win, plus highlights from this year's Rice Oil and Gas Conference.

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Episode 297: The Next Generation of Weather Supercomputers; New Systems Planned for US and UK from 2020-03-04T01:40:57

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader detail two new weather systems slated for US and UK agencies.

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Episode 296: Bursting Big Compute to the Cloud; Less Science in Trump Budget Proposal from 2020-02-15T06:56:54

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader talk about Trump's proposed cuts to the national science agencies, plus Rescale's Big Compute event.

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Episode 295: Fujitsu lines up first ARM deployment; Atos-AMD Upgrades at ECMWF from 2020-02-15T06:20:35

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader return from hiatus with on overview of the biggest stories of 2020 so far in HPC, including Fujitsu's new ARM deployment and Atos' weather system installation.

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Episode 294: An HPC Decade in Review; What to Watch for in the 2020s from 2019-12-24T01:46:37

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader review the trends of the past decade in HPC.

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Episode 293: Top500, +2; Major Updates from Intel and NVIDIA from 2019-12-06T00:32:50

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader talk the top takeaways from SC19, rumors of secret Chinese supercomputers, and the coming chip wars.

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Episode 292: Fujitsu's ARM Reaches Across the Ocean, and SC Heads Back to Denver from 2019-11-15T08:04:05

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Fujitsu's ARM announcement and look forward to the big events of SC19.

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Episode 291: HPC in the AWS Cloud from 2019-11-14T02:05:40

In this sponsored podcast, Addison Snell is joined by Ian Colle, GM for High Performance Computing at Amazon Web Services for a discussion of the evolution of public cloud in #HPC and a look ahead ...

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Episode 290: DDN Touts Innovation at Scale from 2019-11-07T20:54:01

Addison Snell is joined by DDN's James Coomer and Kurt Kuckein in this sponsored podcast.

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Episode 289: Microsoft Pulls Off JEDI Trick; Eni's Next Peta-Whopper from 2019-11-06T01:21:29

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Doug Black discuss how Microsoft pulled its latest DoD contract out from under AWS; plus, Eni's Dell system is announced to be the largest industrial supercomputer.

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Episode 288: Cray Launches ClusterStor E1000; Did Google Achieve Quantum Supremacy? from 2019-11-04T23:16:05

Episode 288: Cray Launches ClusterStor E1000; Did Google Achieve Quantum Supremacy? by Intersect360 Research

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Episode 287: Dell-AMD Relationship Gets More Serious; Happy Exascale Day! from 2019-10-25T02:15:28

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and John Russell dive into DellEMC's new blog and recap Exascale Day.

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Episode 286: Oracle Touts Bare-Metal Cloud; Back-to-Back Wins for Lenovo from 2019-10-22T00:57:37

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Oracle's press and analyst day announcements, plus a pair of wins for Lenovo.

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Episode 285: DOE's AI Summit; DARPA Invests in Fast Networks from 2019-10-11T23:01:09

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader are joined by John Russell in conversation about the DOE's AI Summit and DARPA's latest initiatives.

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Episode 284: Bringing AI and HPC Together from 2019-10-03T18:01:42

Bill Wagner, CEO, Bright Computing, and Jay Boisseau, AI&HPC Technology Strategist, Dell EMC, are Addison Snell's guests this week on this special sponsored podcast, as they discuss the convergence...

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Episode 283: Green AI in Massachusetts; How to Crash into an Asteroid from 2019-10-02T23:27:05

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Oliver Peckham discuss MIT's new GAIA system, plus NASA's plans for investigating asteroid diversion.

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Episode 282: Insights from the AI Hardware Summit; More EPYC in Rome from 2019-09-28T00:58:16

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss happenings at the AI Hardware Summit, plus AMD's EPYC Rome event.

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Episode 281: HPC Cloud Migration with Univa from 2019-09-20T23:36:01

Rob Lalonde of Univa joins Addison Snell for a special sponsored podcast, looking at migration to Cloud in HPC.

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Ep. 280: Better Predictions in Financial Services; Insights from the HPC&AI on Wall St. conference from 2019-09-19T23:15:46

Addison Snell is joined by John Russell and Doug Black of HPCWire and Enterprise AI for an overview of the HPC&AI on Wall Street conference.

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Episode 279: Frontera Debuts at TACC, plus ... DARPA PAPPA and Hello Nanotubes from 2019-09-13T18:43:08

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss TACC's Fronterra system, DARPA's PAPPA, and the future of carbon nanotubes.

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Episode 278: Cerebras Goes Big; IBM Goes Open from 2019-09-07T01:00:37

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader analyze Cerebras and IBM's announcements from HotChips.

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Episode 277: Cray Sweeps Exascale Podium; El Capitan to Take On Nuclear Stockpile from 2019-08-23T20:14:45

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader analyze the implications of Cray's DOE exascale sweep.

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Episode 276: AMD Targets HPC with 7nm EPYC; Server OEMs, Cloud Vendors Line Up from 2019-08-16T23:43:47

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader analyze AMD's Epyc2 launch event.

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Episode 275: OmniPath Comes to a Dead End; What Can AI Do for Science? from 2019-08-07T02:12:04

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the implications of Intel's axing Omni-Path, plus the DOE's AI "Town Hall" meetings.

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Episode 274: Pohoiki! Goonhilly! from 2019-07-19T22:35:18

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Intel's new neuromorphic chip, the approach of a truly green data center, and the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.

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Episode 273: Machine Learning Benchmark Produces Split Decision; NVIDIA Expands DGX-Ready Program from 2019-07-15T23:22:44

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss NVIDIA's and Google's performance on the MLPerf benchmark, plus news about the DGX

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Episode 272: China's Super Secret; U.S. Locks Down Tech Transfers from 2019-07-05T20:18:49

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader dissect the secret around China's new supercomputer, its absence from the TOP500 list, and the U.S. government reaction.

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Episode 271: Updates from ISC19 from 2019-06-20T10:00:03

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader dive into the biggest stories of the ISC19 conference.

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Episode 270: New TOP500 list announced; Must be 1 Petaflops to Enter from 2019-06-17T07:26:13

Addison Snell and TIffany Trader talk TOP500 and SC19.

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Episode 269: HPC Market Update; Roadmap to European Exascale from 2019-06-14T17:45:10

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Intersect360 Research's latest HPC market numbers, plus Europe's pre-exascale and exascale plans.

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Episode 268: NVIDIA Targets AI at the Edge; ThinkParQ Builds Buzz for BeeGFS from 2019-06-05T00:59:05

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Doug Black discuss NVIDIA's latest news and ThinkParQ's BGFS plans.

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Episode 267: HPE to Acquire Cray / Lenovo Outlines Transform 3.0 Vision from 2019-06-05T00:03:59

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Doug Black analyze HPE's purchase of Cray and the reasons behind the $1.3 billion purchase price; plus, Lenovo Transform 3.0 and "AI Winter."

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Episode 266: Oak Ridge Chooses Cray, AMD for Exascale; Intel Offers First Course of Xe Fare from 2019-05-23T01:20:58

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader explore the ramifications of Oak Ridge's choice for exascale, plus Intel's latest news.

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Episode 265: New Dell Server Targets Machine Learning; Exascale Computing Project Update from 2019-05-09T19:43:04

Addison Snell is joined by Tiffany Trader and Doug Black in a discussion of Dell's new AI machine and developments in the U.S. Exascale project.

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Episode 264: Xilinx Picks Up Solarflare; HPC Development in the Cloud from 2019-05-03T00:31:04

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the Xilinx-Solarflare deal, plus Archanan's cloud-based emulation offerings.

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Episode 263: Intel's Agilex FPGA; Dell EMC Demos AI Benchmark from 2019-04-24T03:01:10

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the details of Intel's FPGA and Dell's new AI benchmark.

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Episode 262: Intel Launches Cascade Lake; Optane DIMMs Join the Party from 2019-04-12T22:26:47

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader analyze Intel's Cascade Lake and Optane launch.

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Episode 261: NVIDIA Accelerates Autonomous Driving; HPC Looks at Brexit from 2019-04-05T00:57:57

Addison Snell and special guest Doug Black discuss NVIDIA's autonomous vehicle AI and the implications of Brexit for the HPC industry.

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Episode 260: NVIDIA's 10th GPU Technology Conference; DOE Affirms Exascale Path from 2019-03-26T22:37:46

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader analyze the Nvidia GTC conference and the latest announcement on the DOE Exascale project.

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Episode 259: NVIDIA Wins Mellanox Auction; Trump Proposes 2020 Budget from 2019-03-19T16:00:09

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader analyze the newly-announced NVIDIA acquisition of Mellanox, plus what the new U.S. budget means for the HPC industry.

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Episode 258: Exascale Updates and Early Career Insights; Notes From Rice Oil and Gas from 2019-03-13T16:11:52

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the highlights of the Rice Oil and Gas HPC Conference, including updates to exascale plans.

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Episode 257: D-Wave Chases 5000 Qubits; A Look at HPC and AI in Life Sciences from 2019-03-09T03:02:28

Addison Snell and John Russell of HPCWire talk about D-Wave's advancements in quantum computing, plus the future of AI.

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Episode 256: ClusterVision in Bankruptcy; ARM Intros 128-Core Design from 2019-02-22T03:50:15

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader analyze the bankruptcies of ClusterVision and Transtec, plus ARM's newly-announced 128-core N1 design.

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Episode 255: American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, and What IBM is Doing About It from 2019-02-16T03:56:16

Addison Snell and new cohost Tiffany Trader of HPCWire discus the executive AI initiative, plus highlights from the HPC Advisory Council AI and IBM Think conferences.

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Episode 254: Scaling Beyond Exa; Intel Goes 3D from 2018-12-22T00:43:23

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the prospects for supercomputing architectures after exascale and Intel's plans, including the pursuit of 3-D memory technology.

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Episode 253: Amazon Web Services Extends Its Reach in HPC, Hyperscale, and Enterprise from 2018-12-05T17:21:13

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze three big announcements out of Amazon Web Services in HPC, Hyperscale and Enterprise computing.

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Episode 252: More News From SC18; Updates from Atos, Mellanox, and Panasas from 2018-11-22T01:40:09

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze their takeaways from SC18, including news from Atos, Mellanox, and Panasas.

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Episode 251: SC18 Rolls on in Dallas; Processors Take Center Stage from 2018-11-15T18:50:04

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the trends emerging at SC18, including the convergence of AI, HPC and Cloud, tiered storage, and processor architecture.

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Episode 250: US Widens Lead in Top Supercomputers; SC18 Kicks Off in Dallas from 2018-11-13T05:52:52

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze the new TOP500 results and preview the big stories coming out of SC18.

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Episode 249: AMD Throws Down EPYC Challenge to Intel; A Look Ahead to SC18 from 2018-11-09T18:09:43

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze the top stories as we head into SC18, plus announcements from AMD and Intel.

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Episode 248: Getting Cool Insights Faster in Iceland from 2018-11-02T16:00:13

In this sponsored podcast, Addison Snell discusses Iceland's advantages for data center co-location with Gunnar Stefànsson, Director of Business Development, Opin Kerfi.

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Episode 247: Cray Unveils Unified Supercomputing Platform; Why Did IBM Buy Red Hat? from 2018-11-01T22:37:34

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze Cray's unveiling of its unified supercomputing platform and IBM's purchase of Red Hat.

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Episode 246: Third Exascale Prototype in China; Cray Returns to AMD Formula from 2018-10-29T22:03:23

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss China's third planned exascale system and the likely outcome of Cray's return to AMD.

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Episode 245: Preventing Disease with Machine Learning at Stanford Med from 2018-10-24T12:31:04

Addison Snell interviews Stanford Med's Dr. Jingjing Li about a breakthrough new study that uses machine learning to accurately predict cardiac disease.

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Episode 244: Czech Automaker Preps For 15 Petaflops; Quantum Computing Comes to Life from 2018-10-15T18:23:03

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman review developments in the Chinese Supermicro spy scandal, plus announcements about HPC in the Czech automotive industry and IBM's quantum modeling of evolution.

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Episode243: Chinese Military Implicated in Server Hacking; Supermicro Under Scrutiny from 2018-10-10T13:30:01

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze the potential effects of the Chinese Supermicro spy scandal on the HPC industry.

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Episode 242: IBM Takes a Crack at Machine Bias; New Study Predicts Workforce Disruption from 2018-10-03T03:57:22

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the pitfalls of machine bias in AI and a new study that predicts coming disruption to a substantial percentage of the workforce.

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Episode 241: U.S. Advances Bill for Quantum Leadership; Gordon Bell Finalists Enter Exascale Era from 2018-09-24T23:56:03

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss a $1.2 billion initiative in Congress to keep the U.S. at the forefront of the quantum computing landscape, and take a look at exascale and the Gordon Bell...

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Episode 240: Lenovo and NetApp Partner Up; NVIDIA Puts Turing into Tesla from 2018-09-14T22:58:03

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss Lenovo's newly-announced partnership with NetApp, NVIDIA's Tesla move, HPC on Wall Street, and Lenovo Transform 2.0.

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Episode 239: Azure Gets HPC and AI Boost; Baidu Intros Code-Free Machine Learning from 2018-09-07T22:54:04

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Episode 238: China Makes Big Push into Superconducting Computers; TACC Preps for Frontera from 2018-08-30T21:36:09

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze China's latest announcement on the road to superconductor development, and TACC's new Fronterra system.

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Episode 237: New Processors in the Spotlight; Fujitsu, IBM, and Intel at Hot Chips from 2018-08-29T01:46:30

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze the HPC announcements from the Hot Chips conference.

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Episode 236: A New NSF System for TACC; Plus Installations at NREL, Hokkaido, and Zimbabwe from 2018-08-22T01:43:27

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze new system announcements spanning the globe.

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Episode 235: Three Xeons in Two Years; Intel Unveils Processor Roadmap from 2018-08-22T00:52:14

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze Intel's latest chip announcements and its likely roadmap over the next few years.

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Episode 234: Achieving Zen in China; HPE Wins Blue Brain 5 from 2018-07-17T05:14:06

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss China's Zen and Switzerland's Big Blue Brain.

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Episode 233: European Processor Initiative Takes Aim at Exascale; HPC Cloud Computing on the Upswing from 2018-07-11T06:20:39

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the European exascale initiative and Intersect360 Research's HPC market overview.

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Episode 232: Lustre, Machine Learning, GPUs and Quantum; an ISC Wrap-Up from 2018-06-29T05:09:48

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman wrap up their coverage of ISC18 with an analysis of the biggest news items of the show.

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Episode 231: TOP500 Reaches a New Summit from 2018-06-27T10:03:30

Addison Snell talks with IBM's David Turek about Summit, the #1 system heading up the new TOP500 list.

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Episode 230: ISC18 Kicks Off; TOP500 Gets a Makeover from 2018-06-26T15:52:07

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman talk TOP500, HPCG, and Green500 live from the ISC18 show floor.

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Episode 229: Sandia Set to Break Petaflop Barrier with ARM; A Preview of ISC18 from 2018-06-22T05:55:46

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman preview ISC18 and take a look at the new petaflop ARM system announcement out of Sandia National Labs.

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Episode 228: Penguin Computing Sold to Holding Company; MareNostrum Supercomputer Gets IBM Upgrade from 2018-06-15T00:36:30

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze the unexpected acquisition of Penguin Computing, MareNostrum's upgrade, and stories to watch at ISC.

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Episode 227: DOE Launches Summit Supercomputer; US Poised to Reclaim TOP500 Lead from 2018-06-13T01:01:13

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the Summit news out of Oak Ridge and its probable impact on the TOP500 list.

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Episode 226: NVIDIA Intros New GPU Reference Platform; Intel Unveils Optane Memory Modules from 2018-06-07T04:14:31

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman talk AI, Optane, and NVIDIA's "secret sauce.”

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Episode 225: Intel Updates AI Strategy; Big Claims from New Chip Startup from 2018-06-01T01:50:53

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze this week's top HPC stories, including Intel’s AI push and a new player in the chip arena.

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Episode 224: Intel Launches New Xeon-FPGA Hybrid; Google Raises Bar on Natural Language AI from 2018-05-30T01:27:42

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman examine Intel’s latest offering and the evolution of natural-language AI at Google.

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Episode 223: Cavium Finally Releases ThunderX2 Chips; Google Unveils Third-Generation TPU from 2018-05-23T03:14:31

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze this week's produce announcements from Cavium and Google.

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Episode 222: Eni Flexes Muscles on New Supercomputer; New Systems in Belgium and Australia from 2018-05-16T16:03:15

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze new HPC installations in Italy, Belgium and Australia and predict where they may appear on next month’s TOP500 list.

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Episode 221: DOE Takes Earth Modeling to Exascale; UK Bets Big On AI from 2018-05-04T16:39:02

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze the DOE's exascale whole-earth model announcement and the UK's AI initiative.

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Episode 220: Cray Introduces EPYC Supercomputers; HPE Supplies ARMs to UK from 2018-04-21T00:27:06

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze Cray's EPYC introduction and HPE's UK ARM move.

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Episode 219: DOE Opens RFP for Exascale; Up to $1.8 Billion for CORAL-2 from 2018-04-13T15:30:29

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze the DOE’s newly-announced RFP for U.S. Exascale projects.

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Episode 218: Paderborn Selects Cray FPGA Cluster; RIKEN Taps Matsuoka as Center Director from 2018-04-06T01:33:51

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze Paderborn's selection of Cray for its FPGA cluster and RIKEN's selection of Satoshi Matsuoka as Center Director.

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Episode217: AI, Graphics, and Scientific Computing; All Things GPU at GTC18 from 2018-04-02T22:46:52

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman review the news from NVIDIA's GTC18 conference.

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Episode 216: IBM Bets the House on AI in Las Vegas; Cray Wins Bid for Fusion Science Supercomputer from 2018-03-28T23:39:33

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss IBM's focus on AI at the IBM Think Conference, plus Cray's Fusion Science supercomputer win.

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Episode 215: Google Targets Quantum Supremacy; Brain Simulation Gets Ready for Exascale from 2018-03-22T20:54:09

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the advent of quantum and brain mapping in HPC.

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Episode 214: Lenovo Launches New HPC Platform; White House Floats Budget for Exascale from 2018-03-07T03:21:41

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze this week's top HPC news, including Lenovo's new water-cooled HPC system and the latest US Exascale project budget.

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Episode 213: Google Rents Out TPUs; Cray Financials Take a Nosedive from 2018-02-21T18:21:41

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze Google's latest move and what Cray's financials say about the HPC industry.

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Silicon Photonics, 64-bit ARM, and Singularity Containers; New Startups Take On HPC and Hyperscale from 2018-02-17T01:52:37

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze the offerings and outlook for several new HPC startups.

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Episode 211: China to Defend TOP500 Title; Samsung Launches Challenge to Intel Operations from 2018-02-09T02:25:43

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss China's bid to stay atop the TOP500 list and Samsung's surprising takeover of the #1 chip supplier spot.

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Episode 210: DOE Solicits Projects for Mystery Exascale Architecture; Atos Gets Big Win in Germany from 2018-01-31T04:27:11

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman ponder the DOE's mystery Aurora architecture and Atos' 12-Petaflop German installation.

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Multi-petaflop installations in Italy and India; AI Bests Humans at Reading Comprehension from 2018-01-24T16:23:50

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze this week's big HPC stories, including two new Petaflop installations and a big leap forward for AI.

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Episode 208: What Meltdown and Spectre Mean for HPC; Intel Plays Catch-Up in Quantum Computing from 2018-01-18T23:54:54

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the Meltdown and Spectre bugs, plus news on Intel's quantum computing push.

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Episode207: Microsoft to Acquire Storage Startup; Foxconn Builds Six-Petaflop Supercomputer from 2018-01-09T18:38:21

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss Microsoft's new storage acquisition, Foxconn's six-petaflop supercomputer, and LRZ's upgrade.

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Episode 206: AI, Quantum Computing and the Processor Wars; the HPC Year in Review from 2017-12-17T19:56:18

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman give their analysis of 2017's top HPC trends.

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Episode 205: IBM Debuts POWER9; PEZI Computing Takes a Fall from 2017-12-17T19:24:29

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze IBM's Power9 announcement and the fraud story at PEZI Computing.

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Episode 204: Harrison High School Takes on the Student Cluster Competition from 2017-12-17T17:14:41

Addison Snell interviews the students and coaches from the first ever all-high-school team to compete in SC's Student Cluster Competition.

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Episode 203: Quantum Xcellis Scale-Out NAS from 2017-12-12T15:46:38

Addison Snell is joined by Quantum's Laura Shepard speaking about the newly-announced Quantum Xcellis Scale-Out NAS on this sponsored podcast.

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Episode 202: Intel Drops Next-Gen Xeon Phi; Processor Updates from SC17 from 2017-12-12T00:45:45

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman cover surprising processor coming out of SC17.

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Episode 201: The 50th TOP500 List Live From the Beowulf Bash from 2017-11-15T02:33:50

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman are joined by guests Horst Simon of Lawrence Berkeley National Lab and Don Becker as they talk TOP500, SC17 early highlights, and the Beowulf Bash.

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Episode 200: SC17 Conference Preview from 2017-11-10T07:39:59

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman predict the hot trends and topics of SC17.

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Episode 199: HPE Upgrades Superdome with SGI NUMA; Australian Supercomputer Adds Power8 Cluster from 2017-11-09T07:16:29

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman give their analysis of the HPE Superdome NUMA upgrade and Australia's Raijin upgrade.

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Episode 198: Cray Plugs Its Supercomputers Into Azure; NEC Unveils New Vector Machines from 2017-11-01T15:47:57

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze Cray's new Azure colocation and NEC's promised vector co-processor.

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Episode 197: Intel Readies Nirvana AI Chip; Updates From HPC China from 2017-10-27T20:19:36

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze Intel's Nirvana chip announcement and the happenings at HPC China and the HPC Advisory Council.

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Episode 196: Fujitsu Wins Big Supercomputing Contract; Intel Unveils Its Quantum Computing Chip from 2017-10-21T06:39:19

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss Fujitsu's big AI win; plus Intel's Quantum Computing move.

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Episode 195: U.S. Looks to Aurora for Exascale; Oracle Boots up to GPU Cloud from 2017-10-11T15:57:26

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the DOE's change of course on U.S. exascale plans, plus Oracle's GPU Cloud announcement.

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Episode 194: Intel Enters Neuromorphic Realm; Server Vendors Catch Volta Fever from 2017-10-03T01:54:31

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss Intel's new neuromorphic chip, the future of AI, and ClusterStor.

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Episode 193: DARPA Seeks Workarounds to Moore’s Law; Tianhe-2 Gets Its Upgrade from 2017-09-26T05:42:36

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss DARPA's latest initiative and the upgrade to Tianhe-2.

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Episode 192: Huawei HPC Aspirations Grow with the Cloud; EU Jumpstarts Another Exascale Project from 2017-09-12T20:44:31

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss HPC announcements coming out of Huawei Connect 2017 and the EU's latest Exascale project.

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191: Microsoft Touts New FPGA Platform; Startup Translator Service Takes on Hyperscale Giants from 2017-09-07T15:27:26

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss Microsoft's latest move and a startup entry into online translation services.

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Episode 190: Microsoft Grabs Cycle in Cloud Computing Race; NASA Launches HPC Equipment from 2017-08-25T05:19:34

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss Microsoft's acquisition of Cycle Computing, plus HPE's supercomputer in space.

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Episode189: IBM Brews Strong Caffe; Oak Ridge Begins Climb to Summit from 2017-08-18T05:32:17

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss IBM's record benchmark and Oak Ridge's Summit build.

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Episode 188: TaihuLight Explores Mysteries of the Universe; China Aims for AI Leadership from 2017-08-08T15:16:16

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss two big announcements out of China.

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Episode187: Cray Picks Up ClusterStor from Seagate; India Advances Supercomputing Plans from 2017-07-31T15:55:37

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze Cray's ClusterStor move and India's progress toward home-grown supercomputers.

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Episode 186: EPYC vs Skylake Round One; Cray Right-Sizes to Market Conditions from 2017-07-25T02:07:50

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Episode 185: Skylake Goes for Gold… and Platinum; Intel Launches Xeon Scalable Platform from 2017-07-11T16:40:54

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the latest announcement from Intel.

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Episode 184: Mellanox Jumps Ahead in Ethernet Race; Atos Enters Quantum Computing Realm from 2017-07-06T13:53:30

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the Spectrum-2 announcement from Mellanox and Atos' quantum simulator.

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Episode 183: Europe Takes Aim at Exascale; Air Force Flies TrueNorth from 2017-07-01T16:56:54

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman dissect Europe's plans for an Exascale system, and contemplate the uses of IBM's low-power TrueNorth chip in its announced U.S. Air Force application.

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Episode 182: AMD Makes EPYC Launch; Lenovo and IBM News from ISC from 2017-06-27T15:58:54

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss AMD's launch of EPYC , plus news from IBM and Lenovo.

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Episode 181: New Systems for ARM, ShenWei and Skylake: Updates from ISC 17 from 2017-06-21T06:58:12

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Episode 180: GPUs, OmniPath, and Piz Daint; Highlights of the new TOP500 list from 2017-06-19T05:12:44

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman react to the news from the Top500 list at ISC 2017.

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Episode 179: DOE PathForward Awards for Exascale; A Look Ahead at ISC 17 from 2017-06-17T07:20:34

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman comment on the DOE's exascale awards and discuss the things to watch at ISC 17.

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Episode 178: IBM Paves Path to Five Nanometers; DARPA Hires Intel for a New Project from 2017-06-14T23:54:13

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss interesting chip developments coming from IBM and Intel.

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Episode 177: Power What's Next at ISC - An Interview With Molly Presley of Quantum from 2017-06-07T22:43:37

Addison Snell and Molly Presley discuss data management trends in HPC and Quantum's ISC plans.

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Episode 176: IBM and Google Step Up Quantum Race; Nvidia Adds ODMs to Hyperscale Strategy from 2017-06-05T23:58:31

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the latest move to up the ante on quantum computing and consider Nvidia's hyperscale strategy.

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Episode 175: DOE Budget Saves Computing But Skimps on Research; Microsoft Expands Role of FPGAs from 2017-06-01T01:56:29

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman dissect the latest DOE budget proposal and its probable effect on HPC applications. Also, what Microsoft's FPGA expansion means for chip suppliers.

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Episode 174: HPE Refreshes The Machine; Google Levels up TPU from 2017-05-26T17:03:03

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman consider HPE's newest iteration of The Machine, and Google's move to leverage its TPU.

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Episode 173: Nvidia Launches Volta into AI; Updates and Analysis from GTC17 from 2017-05-19T14:20:08

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss Nvidia's Volta and the GTC17 conference.

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Episode 172: HPC Dodges Budget Axe; China Claims Quantum Computing Breakthrough from 2017-05-17T19:15:37

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman react to U.S. HPC budget news, and China's announcement of a quantum computing breakthrough.

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Episode 171: Canada Begins Big Petascale Push; Machine Learning Catches a Wave from 2017-05-11T21:41:18

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman react to Canada's Petascale announcement and discuss Wave Computing's plans to break into machine learning.

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Episode 170: Intel Reverses Course on IDF and Lustre; Xeon Phi and Omni-Path Make Cloud Debut from 2017-05-02T16:12:02

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss Intel's latest HPC moves.

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Episode 169: Gerrymandering Meets Supercomputing; Russian HPC Shows Its Age from 2017-04-28T04:45:45

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss a new supercomputing application that could be used in a gerrymandering case before the Supreme Court, and a Russian attempt to display its HPC prowess bac...

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Episode 168: Google Justifies In-House Processor; EU Plans Home-Grown Exascale from 2017-04-18T15:34:52

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss Google’s plans to scale its Tensor Processing Units through the cloud and the EU’s announced development of a home-grown exascale system.

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Episode 167: Intel Renews Debate About Moore's Law; UK Builds Out Supercomputing Centers from 2017-04-07T05:08:05

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman interpret Intel's take on the Moore's Law debate and the impact of Britain's 20 million pound supercomputing investment.

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Episode166: U.S. Frets Over Chinese Supercomputing; Addison's Testimony From Capitol Hill from 2017-03-31T05:17:25

U.S. Government report examines China's supercomputing leadership bid and Addison Snell testifies in front of U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

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Episode 165: IBM on Quantum Computing; Microsoft and Facebook Offer GPU Server Designs from 2017-03-16T06:10:42

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss IBM's path to commercializing quantum computing and take a look at Microsoft and Facebook's GPU server designs.

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Episode 164: Google Cloud Gets High Performance Boost; India Promises 10-Petaflop Supercomputer from 2017-03-09T19:50:41

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the latest news on Google's processor updates and promises of a 10-petaflop system out of India.

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Episode 163: Burst Buffers Accelerate Scientific Discovery at NERSC from 2017-02-22T01:55:25

Addison Snell discusses how burst buffers are accelerating scientific solutions at NERSC with special guests Debbie Bard, Big Data Architect, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (N...

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Episode 162: AI Gets Top Billing in TSUBAME Sequel; Cloud Providers Face Off in Linpack Showdown from 2017-02-18T08:14:10

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the latest AI news out of Japan and the latest Linpack showdown.

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Episode161: Intel Delivers Fab News at White House; Cray Finishes 2016 in the Black from 2017-02-16T05:01:30

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman review Intel's Oval Office factory announcement and Cray's year-end fiscal news.

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Episode160: Trump Travel Ban Agitates Tech Community; NCAR Boots Up 5-Petaflop Super from 2017-02-08T07:11:43

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the high-tech industry's response to Trump's travel ban, NCAR's new five-petaflop supercomputer, and the poker triumph of AI.

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Episode159: China Whispers About Exascale Prototype; US DOE Frets About Supercomputing Cuts from 2017-02-01T00:24:45

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Episode158: Cray Tapped to Build ARM Supercomputer; Bull and Cavium Team Up on Mont-Blanc Prototype from 2017-01-24T22:50:50

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss Cray's ARM supercomputer and news from Bull and Cavium.

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Episode157: AMD and Chelsio Launch into New Year; Poker-Playing AI Gets Rematch from 2017-01-19T01:41:43

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss Chelsio and AMD's new Vega system and debate the chances of Carnegie Mellon's poker-playing A.I. system against the pros.

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Episode156: AMD Throws Hat Into Machine Learning Ring; ARM Acquires Allinea from 2016-12-20T01:11:51

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss AMD's machine learning strategy plus ARM's acquisition of Allinea.

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Episode155: HPE Puts the Machine in Motion; U.S. Embarks on Faster Path to Exascale from 2016-12-14T07:20:44

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss HPE's future-looking concept car and the new DOE roadmap to an earlier exascale system.

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Episode154: Japanese Government Funds AI Supercomputer; Intel Unveils AI Chip Road Map from 2016-12-07T16:24:43

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss A.I. news from Intel and Japan, plus Seagate's latest platform.

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Episode 153: Shifting HPC Vendor Landscape; Final Takeaways from SC16 from 2016-11-24T08:26:11

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman review the shifting market share among top HPC vendors and some final notes on SC16.

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Episode152: AI Shapes Supercomputing; Processor News Plus Green500 from 2016-11-18T19:40:55

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman wrap up the Supercomputing 16 show with an overview of AI and the Green500 list.

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Episode151: SC16 Kickoff; New Technologies on Top500 from 2016-11-17T00:53:51

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman talk over the new Top500 list and highlights of the first half of SC16.

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Episode150: Safe With Me, This Week in HPC from 2016-11-13T05:05:40

Addison Snell shares a PSA about the #SafeWithMe #safetypin movement in America. For more information on the origins and meaning of this movement, view the following articles:The Powerful Reason ...

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Episode149: Election Results Trump Predictions; Mellanox Sets Bar at 200 Gigabits from 2016-11-11T07:00:06

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the modeling behind U.S. election predictions and how they got it so wrong; also, Mellanox's 200 gigabit announcement and a preview of SC16.

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Episode148: HP Enterprise and SGI Make it Official; Startup Graphcore Takes Aim at NVIDIA from 2016-11-07T08:28:15

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the finalization of HP Enterprises' acquisition of SGI and take a look at Graphcore's new microprocessor aimed at the machine learning space.

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Episode147: HPC Market Picks Up in Latest Forecast; NVDIMMs Brighten Up from 2016-11-03T06:49:13

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss Intersect360's latest HPC market forecast, and the trend toward NVDIMMs.

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Episode146: In-Depth on OpenCAPI: IBM and Micron Join on This Week in HPC from 2016-10-26T23:39:35

Episode146: In-Depth on OpenCAPI: IBM and Micron Join on This Week in HPC by Intersect360 Research

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Episode 145: Dell EMC World Hits Austin; IBM Unveils OpenCAPI from 2016-10-22T05:01:19

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman review the happenings at Dell EMC World and the surprises surrounding IBM's OpenCAPI consortium announcement.

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Episode 144: Intel ARMs Its FPGAs; Cray Ponders Deep Learning Supercomputer from 2016-10-14T05:29:56

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman share their thoughts on Intel's latest chip line and Cray's move into deep learning.

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Episode143: Adapteva Reaches Thousand Core Epiphany; More GPUs in the Cloud from 2016-10-07T21:46:46

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss Adapteva's breakthrough technology and cloud computing's more robust offerings.

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Episode 142: Microsoft Rolls Out FPGAs Across Cloud; NVIDIA Builds Momentum in Europe from 2016-10-06T04:24

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman dissect the week's top HPC stories.

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Episode 141: IBM Edge Conference in Las Vegas and HPC Advisory Council in Spain from 2016-09-27T14:41:40

Addison Snell reviews the big stories from some of the week's HPC conferences.

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Episode 140: Japan Slips Exascale Schedule and New Products From DDN and Aquila from 2016-09-20T05:08:30

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze this week's top stories in HPC.

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Episode 139: IBM Introduces New Power Servers; Mergers and Acquisitions Update from 2016-09-09T05:33:51

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman ponder the various mergers and acquisitions shaking up the HPC industry.

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Episode 138: Watson Builds a Smarter Movie Trailer; and Facebook A.I. Runs Amok from 2016-09-02T04:01:37

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the highs and lows of artificial intelligence this week as IBM and Facebook make A.I. waves.

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ARM Unveils Supercomputing Design and IBM Talks up Power9 from 2016-08-26T22:51:11

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman dissect the HPC news from the Hot Chips symposium.

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Knights Mill, Machine Learning and Silicon Photonics; News From the Intel Developer Forum from 2016-08-23T00:25:51

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman review the biggest HPC news of the week and the announcements coming out of the Intel Developer Forum.

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Hewlett Packard Enterprise to Acquire SGI: An Interview With HPE's Bill Mannel from 2016-08-13T00:19:15

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman welcome Bill Mannel of HPE to talk about the company's acquisition of SGI.

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Moore’s Law Coming Back in 3D and Cray Revenue Goes Up in Smoke from 2016-08-08T15:01:32

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss Cray's disappointing quarterly earnings and a report offering a new path to the continuation of Moore's Law.

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New Startup Targets Machine Learning, and Trends in HPC Software from 2016-07-29T06:53:03

Addison Snell and Chris Willard discuss machine learning from Wave Computing, plus three new research reports from Intersect360 Research.

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Japanese Conglomerate to Aquire ARM and Silicon Valley Slams Trump from 2016-07-22T04:28:14

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman have differing opinions on the potential impact of SoftBank's move to acquire ARM but agree with Silicon Valley leadership that Trump is a potential catastrophe fo...

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What Brexit Means for High Performance Computing from 2016-07-15T21:21:32

Addison Snell discusses the potential ramifications of Brexit on the HPC industry with special guest Andrew Jones, HPC Consulting Team Leader at Numerical Algorithms Group.

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Moore's Law Gets a Hearing and Petaflop Club Ups Its Membership from 2016-07-08T13:02:21

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman wrap up their thoughts about ISC16 with an analysis of the direction of HPC post Moore's Law, and consider the newest members of the Petaflop club.

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10th Anniversary of Intel Threading Building Blocks with Special Guest James Reinders from 2016-07-05T19:21:46

Addison Snell welcomes HPC and parallel computing expert James Reinders to discuss Intel's Threading Building Blocks on its tenth anniversary.

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Knight's Landing and Pascal GPU Face Off at ISC and Fujitsu Surprises With ARM from 2016-06-29T23:13:12

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the top news items coming out of the ISC'16 conference.

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New #1 Supercomputer Crushes Competition and China Takes Top500 by Storm from 2016-06-21T06:32:32

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman dissect the top stories from the start of ISC 2016, including the Chinese dominance of the Top500 list.

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Mellanox Launches ConnectX-5 and Cavium Buys QLogic, Plus a Preview of ISC from 2016-06-18T19:55:15

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss Mellanox's newest offering, Cavium's purchase of QLogic, and the promise of ISC'16.

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Intel Cranks Out New Xeons and South Africa Leaps to Petaflops from 2016-06-13T04:58:17

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss Intel's new 8800/4400 series Xeon processors and South Africa's latest supercomputer.

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A New Stampede in Texas and Taking Watson to the Edge from 2016-06-03T20:00:15

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman are joined by Chris Willard, PhD, as they discuss TACC's new supercomputer and the IBM/Cisco Watson partnership.

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Cray's Newest Analytics Supercomputer and India's Home-Grown HPC from 2016-05-27T22:55

Addison and Michael consider the merits of Cray's new Urika GX; India announces plans to build and deploy 70-80 home-grown supercomputing systems.

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DDN Enters All-Flash Arena and IBM Demos Advanced Phase-Change Memory from 2016-05-20T23:40:13

Addison and Michael analyze the week's big HPC news.

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Fujitsu to Build 25-Petaflop Supercomputer and Facebook Unveils Machine Learning Framework from 2016-05-17T03:16:07

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the week's top HPC stories.

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China Reveals Exascale Plans and Green 500 Merges With Top 500 from 2016-05-06T22:27:10

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze China's exascale roadmap and the news of Green 500 merging with Top 500.

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Thinktank Advocates US HPC Leadership and DOE Refines Exascale Timeline from 2016-05-04T01:55:10

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman dissect the week's top HPC news stories.

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Intel Omni-Path Builds Bridges at Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center from 2016-05-03T01:27:32

Addison speaks with Nick Nystrom, Ph.D. and Barry Davis about Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's Bridges system.

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Intel Cuts Ten Percent of Work Force and Releases Knights Landing Developer Platform from 2016-04-25T17:05:08

Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss the top news in HPC, including Intel's workforce cuts and new Knights Landing developer platform.

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New Apollo Launches from HP Enterprise; Bull Talks Up Sequana Roadmap. from 2016-04-17T13:22:16

This Week In HPC Episode 116 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. New Apollo Launches from HP Enterprise; Bull Talks Up Sequana Roadmap.

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NVIDIA Unleashes Pascal at GTC; Google Buys into OpenPower. from 2016-04-11T03:32:40

This Week In HPC Episode 115 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. NVIDIA Unleashes Pascal at GTC; Google Buys into OpenPower.

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Intel Launches Broadwell Xeon; AMD Offers Up New GPU. from 2016-04-03T19:24:51

This Week In HPC Episode 114 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Intel Launches Broadwell Xeon; AMD Offers Up New GPU.

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HPC Advisory Council in Switzerland; Google Offers Machine Learning for the Masses from 2016-03-28T03:21:08

This Week In HPC Episode 113 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. HPC Advisory Council in Switzerland; Google Offers Machine Learning for the Masses

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ARM Charts Path to 7nm; DDN Refreshes GridScaler Storage. from 2016-03-20T18:25:47

This Week In HPC Episode 112 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. ARM Charts Path to 7nm; DDN Refreshes GridScaler Storage.

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Checking in at the OCP Summit; Machine Learning Masters an Ancient Game from 2016-03-14T02:39:43

This Week In HPC Episode 111 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Checking in at the OCP Summit; Machine Learning Masters an Ancient Game.

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AI Hits the Mainstream; Highlights from the Rice Oil&Gas Conference. from 2016-03-06T20:04:42

This Week In HPC Episode 110 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. AI Hits the Mainstream; Highlights from the Rice Oil&Gas Conference.

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Watson Upgrades His Emotional IQ; Stanford HPC Advisory Council Workshop. from 2016-02-29T06:32:33

This Week In HPC Episode 109 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Watson Upgrades His Emotional IQ; Stanford HPC Advisory Council Workshop.

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IBM Makes Big Health Analytics Buy; Amazon Shores Up HPC Cloud from 2016-02-21T23:33:03

This Week In HPC Episode 108 featuring Michael Feldman and Special Guest Chris Willard. IBM Makes Big Health Analytics Buy; Amazon Shores Up HPC Cloud.

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Gravity Makes Waves; Hewlett Packard Takes SGI Technology to Market. from 2016-02-15T05:46:34

This Week In HPC Episode 107 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Gravity Makes Waves; Hewlett Packard Takes SGI Technology to Market.

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Huawei Teams Up On Supercomputing Innovation Center in Poland from 2016-02-08T06:17:55

This Week In HPC Episode 106 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Huawei Teams Up On Supercomputing Innovation Center in Poland; Pittsburgh In Line for Next Custom-Built Super.

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Siemens Makes HPC Buy; Mellanox Posts Record Revenue. from 2016-02-01T04:41

This Week In HPC Episode 105 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Siemens Makes HPC Buy; Mellanox Posts Record Revenue.

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Alibaba Bets Big On HPC, AI, And Big Data; Singapore Preps For Petascale from 2016-01-24T17:09:29

This Week In HPC Episode 104 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Alibaba Bets Big On HPC, AI, And Big Data; Singapore Preps For Petascale.

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US Heats Up Supercomputing at NOAA and NCAR; HPC Budget Map Update from 2016-01-18T05:15:34

This Week In HPC Episode 103 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. US Heats Up Supercomputing at NOAA and NCAR; HPC Budget Map Update.

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High Performance Technologies in Transition; What to Watch for in 2016 from 2016-01-11T04:46:28

This Week In HPC Episode 102 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. High Performance Technologies in Transition; What to Watch for in 2016.

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Deep Learning and Big Acquisitions; The Year in Review in HPC from 2015-12-27T19:15:06

This Week In HPC Episode 101 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Deep Learning and Big Acquisitions; The Year in Review in HPC.

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Reading Scorpio’s Horoscope; AMD Opens Up GPU Stack. from 2015-12-20T20:09:08

This Week In HPC Episode 100 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Reading Scorpio’s Horoscope; AMD Opens Up GPU Stack.

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Facebook Opens Up Machine Learning; Google Takes Quantum Leap from 2015-12-13T20:22:20

This Week In HPC Episode 99 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Facebook Opens Up Machine Learning; Google Takes Quantum Leap

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HPC and Cyber Security; Updates from Houston and South Africa. from 2015-12-07T05:14:11

This Week In HPC Episode 98 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. New Fabrics and Chips; A Wrap-Up From SC15.HPC and Cyber Security; Updates from Houston and South Africa.

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Seagate and DDN Rev Up Storage Offerings; Bull Goes Exa with Sequana. from 2015-11-25T07:29:05

This Week In HPC Episode 97 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Seagate and DDN Rev Up Storage Offerings; Bull Goes Exa with Sequana.

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New Fabrics and Chips; A Wrap-Up From SC15 from 2015-11-21T18:52:15

This Week In HPC Episode 96, Special Edition featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. New Fabrics and Chips; A Wrap-Up From SC15.

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China Moves Up In Top 500; SC Kicks Off In Austin. from 2015-11-19T01:51:14

This Week In HPC Episode 95, Special Edition featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. China moves up in Top 500, SC kicks off in Austin.

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HPC Now Declared Open; NVIDIA and D-Wave Push the Envelope. from 2015-11-15T21:40:14

This Week In HPC Episode 94 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. HPC Now Declared Open; NVIDIA and D-Wave Push the Envelope.

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Desktop Supercomputing – It’s Back; EU Builds Exascale Prototype. from 2015-11-08T01:10

This Week In HPC Episode 93 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Desktop Supercomputing – It’s Back; EU Builds Exascale Prototype.

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IBM Makes Big Buy Into Weather; SDSC Puts New Lustre on Comet. from 2015-11-02T15:38:02

This Week In HPC Episode 92 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. IBM Makes Big Buy Into Weather; SDSC Puts New Lustre on Comet.

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SanDisk Finds Its Buyer; DoE Taps Penguin for Petaflops. from 2015-10-26T05:20:48

This Week In HPC Episode 91 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. SanDisk Finds Its Buyer; DoE Taps Penguin for Petaflops.

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Dell and EMC Make it Official; Other Storage Happenings at SanDisk and Spectra. from 2015-10-19T13:23:09

This Week In HPC Episode 90 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Dell and EMC Make it Official; Other Storage Happenings at SanDisk and Spectra.

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IBM Powers Up HPC Portfolio; Dell Eyes EMC Acquisition from 2015-10-14T15:36:22

This Week In HPC Episode 89 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. IBM Powers Up HPC Portfolio; Dell Eyes EMC Acquisition

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IBM Looks to Extend Moore’s Law; Microsoft Adds GPUs to Azure from 2015-10-05T14:53:22

This Week In HPC Episode 88 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. IBM Looks to Extend Moore’s Law; Microsoft Adds GPUs to Azure.

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HPC Advisory Council Meets in Spain; Predicting Your Death with Big Data from 2015-09-28T14:37:34

This Week In HPC Episode 87 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. HPC Advisory Council Meets in Spain; Predicting Your Death with Big Data.

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HP Continues HPC Momentum Despite Layoffs; SGI, Cray Install New Supercomputers. from 2015-09-21T04:43:06

This Week In HPC Episode 86 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. HP Continues HPC Momentum Despite Layoffs; SGI, Cray Install New Supercomputers.

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Google Lowers Entry Cost for Supercomputing; New AMD GPU Shows HPC Promise from 2015-09-14T17:11:17

This Week In HPC Episode 85 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Google Lowers Entry Cost for Supercomputing; New AMD GPU Shows HPC Promise.

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Semiconductor Industry Seeks to Reboot IT; Intel Invests in Quantum Computing from 2015-09-09T12:52:58

This Week In HPC Episode 84 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Semiconductor Industry Seeks to Reboot IT; Intel Invests in Quantum Computing.

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Hot Chips Offers Deep Learning; HPC Advisory Council in Brazil from 2015-08-31T17:09:37

This Week In HPC Episode 83 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Hot Chips Offers Deep Learning; HPC Advisory Council in Brazil.

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Obama Creates Executive Order for Supercomputing; Intel and Micron Unveil New Memory Technology. from 2015-08-24T13:07:35

This Week In HPC Episode 82 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Obama Creates Executive Order for Supercomputing; Intel and Micron Unveil New Memory Technology.

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InfiniBand Pulls Ahead on TOP500; Smart Meter Supercomputing. from 2015-07-27T23:29:17

This Week In HPC Episode 81 featuring Michael Feldman and Special Guest Chris Willard. InfiniBand Pulls Ahead on TOP500; Smart Meter Supercomputing.

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HPC Market Grows in 2014 and OpenPower Establishes New Design Center. from 2015-07-03T22:41:54

This Week In HPC Episode 77 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. HPC Market Grows in 2014 and OpenPower Establishes New Design Center.

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Dell Launches New PowerEdge Server and D-Wave Doubles Up on Qubits. from 2015-06-29T00:58:15

This Week In HPC Episode 76 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Dell Launches New PowerEdge Server and D-Wave Doubles Up on Qubits.

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Mellanox Launches 100 Gigabit Ethernet Switch and New Data on High Performance Storage from 2015-06-22T11:39:36

This Week In HPC Episode 75 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Mellanox Launches 100 Gigabit Ethernet Switch and New Data on High Performance Storage

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HP's New Strategy for High Performance Computing; Big Data Slides in, the Memristor Slides Out from 2015-06-15T03:18:15

This Week In HPC Episode 74 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. HP's New Strategy for High Performance Computing; Big Data Slides in, the Memristor Slides Out

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Altera Accepts Intel Offer and Freedom Act Halts Metadata Collection. from 2015-06-07T19:36:25

This Week In HPC Episode 73 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Altera Accepts Intel Offer and Freedom Act Halts Metadata Collection.

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SRC Takes FPGAs to Hyperscale and Rescale takes HPC to the Cloud from 2015-05-31T23:08:35

This Week In HPC Episode 72 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. SRC Takes FPGAs to Hyperscale and Rescale takes HPC to the Cloud.

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IBM Powers Up New Servers and India Joins the Petaflop Club from 2015-05-26T15:36:28

This Week In HPC Episode 71 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. IBM Powers Up New Servers and India Joins the Petaflop Club

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IBM Edge and Fujitsu Forum from 2015-05-19T04:09:05

This Week In HPC Episode 70 featuring Addison Snell. IBM Edge and Fujitsu Forum.

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AMD Recommits to HPC and HP Extends Apollo Portfolio. from 2015-05-11T14:51:50

This Week In HPC Episode 69 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. AMD Recommits to HPC and HP Extends Apollo Portfolio.

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A Blue Sky Opportunity for Manufacturing and Carnegie Mellon Raises the Ante on A.I. from 2015-05-02T23:51:23

This Week In HPC Episode 68 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. A Blue Sky Opportunity for Manufacturing and Carnegie Mellon Raises the Ante on Artificial Intelligence.

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Bio-IT World Wrap-Up; NERSC Buys Another Cray Super. from 2015-04-27T04:01:55

This Week In HPC Episode 67 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Bio-IT World Wrap-Up; NERSC Buys Another Cray Super.

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US Drops Bomb on Chinese Supercomputing; Export Restrictions Threaten Tianhe 2 Expansion. from 2015-04-20T13:07:03

This Week In HPC Episode 66 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. U.S. drops bomb on Chinese supercomputing, export restrictions threaten Tenhou 2 expansion.

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Intel gets final piece of CORAL, Altera deal in doubt. from 2015-04-13T12:25:20

This Week In HPC Episode 65 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Intel gets final piece of CORAL, Altera deal in doubt.

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Micron acquires Convey, is an Intel Altera deal next? from 2015-04-06T17:25:27

This Week In HPC Episode 64 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Micron acquires Convey, is an Intel Altera deal next?

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Lenovo plants hpc flag in Europe and PGS invests in 5 petaflop super from 2015-03-26T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 63 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Lenovo plants hpc flag in Europe and PGS invests in 5 petaflop super.

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Deep learning at GTC and Open Power opens up. from 2015-03-19T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 62 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Deep learning at GTC and Open Power opens up.

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The demise of Moore's law, life beyond shrinking transistors. from 2015-03-13T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 53 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. The demise of Moore's law, Life beyond shrinking transistors.

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Penguin announces Knights Landing platform and Mellanox goes multi host. from 2015-03-11T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 61 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Penguin announces Knights Landing platform and Mellanox goes multi host.

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Major League Baseball's Secret Cray and Notes from the Rice Oil&Gas HPC Workshop. from 2015-03-09T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 60 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Major League Baseball's Secret Cray and Notes from the Rice Oil&Gas HPC Workshop.

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From Neural Networks to Superfish: Microsoft, Cray, ISC, Adaptive, and Lenovo in the News. from 2015-03-02T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 59 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. From Neural Networks to Superfish: Microsoft, Cray, ISC, Adaptive, and Lenovo in the News.

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Lenovo Lauches ARM Server Project, and IBM Doubles Down on Software-Defined Storage. from 2015-02-23T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 58 featuring Michael Feldman and special guest Chris Willard. Lenovo Lauches ARM Server Project, and IBM Doubles Down on Software-Defined Storage.

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Congress floats exascale legislation and Zimbabwe gets it's first super computer. from 2015-02-12T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 57 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Congress floats exascale legislation and Zimbabwe gets it's first super computer.

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Exascale Boost in Obama Budget and Computing at the Speed of Light. from 2015-02-09T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 56 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Exascale Boost in Obama Budget and Computing at the Speed of Light.

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Microsoft Acquires Analytic Startup and Bitcoin Miner Dives into Emersion Cooling. from 2015-02-02T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 55 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Microsoft Acquires Analytic Startup and Bitcoin Miner Dives into Emersion Cooling.

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Baidu Sets New Benchmark for Image Recognition and Notes from the Analytics and Big Data Conference. from 2015-01-26T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 54 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Baidu Sets New Benchmark for Image Recognition and Notes from the Analytics and Big Data Conference.

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US Weather Forecasting Gets Petascale Bump; IBM and Cray Team up on Deal. from 2015-01-12T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 52 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. US Weather Forecasting Gets Petascale Bump; IBM and Cray Team up on Deal.

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Changes in Store for HPC: A Look Ahead to 2015. from 2014-12-29T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 51 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Changes in Store for HPC: A Look Ahead to 2015.

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Mergers, Divestitures, and New Architectures: A Look Back at HPC in 2014. from 2014-12-22T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 50 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Mergers, Divestitures, and New Architectures: A Look Back at HPC in 2014.

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Superconducting Supercomputers and a Deep Dive into Artificial Intelligence. from 2014-12-15T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 49 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Superconducting Supercomputers and a Deep Dive into Artificial Intelligence.

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DOE Anties up $100 Million for Exascale and Wrap-ups of This Week's HPC Conferences. from 2014-12-10T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 48 featuring Michael Feldman and Chris Williard. DOE Anties up $100 Million for Exascale and Wrap-ups of This Week's HPC Conferences.

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HPC for your Christmas Shopping List, A Wrap-up of System News From SC14. from 2014-12-03T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 47 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. HPC for your Christmas Shopping List � A Wrap-up of System News From SC14.

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Altair Announces PBS Pro 13: A Conversation with Bill Nitzberg. from 2014-11-28T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 46 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Sponsored by Altair. Altair Announces PBS Pro 13: A Conversation with Bill Nitzberg.

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HPC News from the Big Easy: Supercomputing Conference Highlights. from 2014-11-24T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 45 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. HPC News from the Big Easy: Supercomputing Conference Highlights.

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IBM and NVIDIA Pick up Two Pieces of Coral and A Look Ahead to SC14. from 2014-11-17T00:00

This Week In HPC500 Episode 44 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. IBM and NVIDIA Pick up Two Pieces of Coral and A Look Ahead to SC14.

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Exascale Bill Faces Uncertain Future in U.S. Senate, and HPC Gets in the Entrepreneurial Spirit. from 2014-11-10T00:00

This Week In HPC500 Episode 43 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Exascale Bill Faces Uncertain Future in U.S. Senate, and HPC Gets in the Entrepreneurial Spirit.

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Chips Heat Up in Silicon Valley and A Big Week for Processor News. from 2014-08-15T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 31 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Chips Heat Up in Silicon Valley and A Big Week for Processor News.

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AMD Surprises with High-Performance GPU and Fujitsu Unveils Teraflop SPARC Chip. from 2014-08-08T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 30 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. AMD Surprises with High-Performance GPU and Fujitsu Unveils Teraflop SPARC Chip.

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Searching for Scalability in China and Tracking Criminals in Canada. from 2014-08-01T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 29 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Searching for Scalability in China and Tracking Criminals in Canada.

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Intel Maps Omni Scale Future and IBM Moves InfiBand to the Cloud. from 2014-07-26T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 28 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Intel Maps Omni Scale Future and IBM Moves InfiBand to the Cloud.

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Key Executives Leaving Cray and IBM Elastic Storage Stretches to the Cloud. from 2014-07-18T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 27 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Key Executives Leaving Cray and IBM Elastic Storage Stretches to the Cloud.

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Big Deals Cascade in for Cray andIBM Commits $3 Billion in Chip Research. from 2014-07-11T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 26 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Big Deals Cascade in for Cray and IBM Commits $3 Billion in Chip Research.

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Russia ARMs Itself Against x86 and Yet More SuperComputer Lists. from 2014-07-07T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 25 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. Russia ARMs Itself Against x86 and Yet More SuperComputer Lists.

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ISC 14 Wrap-up; Trends, Topics, Winners, and Losers. from 2014-06-27T00:00

This Week In HPC Episode 24 featuring Addison Snell and Michael Feldman. ISC 14 Wrap-up; Trends, Topics, Winners, and Losers.

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