This Week in HPC

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

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

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

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's on it.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 talk, "Future Supercomputers are game changers for processor architecture. Why?"

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 Professor of HPC at the University of Edinburgh, and Mark Wilkinson, Professor of Astrophysics and Director of the DIRAC facility at the University Leicester, about the Catalyst UK project and the role of ARM.

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 could have originated from a Wuhan lab leak.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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 the Philosophy of Technology)."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 all-star panel of black HPC professionals for a discussion of the intersection of race and the HPC industry in America. This special, extended-length podcast is also available to view in its full video mode at https://youtu.be/h6mfl9F35MQ.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 COVID-19.

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 to the pandemic.

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 drug treatment for COVID-19.