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Episode 298: Another Exascale Win for AMD; Highlights from the Rice Oil and Gas Conference

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.

Mar 11, 202018 min

Episode 297: The Next Generation of Weather Supercomputers; New Systems Planned for US and UK

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

Mar 4, 202015 min

Episode 296: Bursting Big Compute to the Cloud; Less Science in Trump Budget Proposal

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

Feb 15, 202014 min

Episode 295: Fujitsu lines up first ARM deployment; Atos-AMD Upgrades at ECMWF

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.

Feb 15, 202012 min

Episode 294: An HPC Decade in Review; What to Watch for in the 2020s

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

Dec 24, 201926 min

Episode 293: Top500, +2; Major Updates from Intel and NVIDIA

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

Dec 6, 201919 min

Episode 292: Fujitsu's ARM Reaches Across the Ocean, and SC Heads Back to Denver

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

Nov 15, 201918 min

Episode 291: HPC in the AWS Cloud

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 to SC19.

Nov 14, 201916 min

Episode 290: DDN Touts Innovation at Scale

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

Nov 7, 201916 min

Episode 289: Microsoft Pulls Off JEDI Trick; Eni's Next Peta-Whopper

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.

Nov 6, 201914 min

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

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

Nov 4, 201916 min

Episode 287: Dell-AMD Relationship Gets More Serious; Happy Exascale Day!

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

Oct 25, 201917 min

Episode 286: Oracle Touts Bare-Metal Cloud; Back-to-Back Wins for Lenovo

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

Oct 22, 201913 min

Episode 285: DOE's AI Summit; DARPA Invests in Fast Networks

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

Oct 11, 201918 min

Episode 284: Bringing AI and HPC Together

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 of workloads and infrastructures in HPC and AI. Sponsored by Bright Computing and Dell EMC.

Oct 3, 201917 min

Episode 283: Green AI in Massachusetts; How to Crash into an Asteroid

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

Oct 2, 201914 min

Episode 282: Insights from the AI Hardware Summit; More EPYC in Rome

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

Sep 28, 201914 min

Episode 281: HPC Cloud Migration with Univa

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

Sep 20, 201913 min

Ep. 280: Better Predictions in Financial Services; Insights from the HPC & AI on Wall St. conference

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.

Sep 19, 201919 min

Episode 279: Frontera Debuts at TACC, plus ... DARPA PAPPA and Hello Nanotubes

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

Sep 13, 201920 min

Episode 278: Cerebras Goes Big; IBM Goes Open

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

Sep 7, 201919 min

Episode 277: Cray Sweeps Exascale Podium; El Capitan to Take On Nuclear Stockpile

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

Aug 23, 201915 min

Episode 276: AMD Targets HPC with 7nm EPYC; Server OEMs, Cloud Vendors Line Up

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

Aug 16, 201917 min

Episode 275: OmniPath Comes to a Dead End; What Can AI Do for Science?

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

Aug 7, 201916 min

Episode 274: Pohoiki! Goonhilly!

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.

Jul 19, 201913 min

Episode 273: Machine Learning Benchmark Produces Split Decision; NVIDIA Expands DGX-Ready Program

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

Jul 15, 201912 min

Episode 272: China's Super Secret; U.S. Locks Down Tech Transfers

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.

Jul 5, 201921 min

Episode 271: Updates from ISC19

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

Jun 20, 201915 min

Episode 270: New TOP500 list announced; Must be 1 Petaflops to Enter

Addison Snell and TIffany Trader talk TOP500 and SC19.

Jun 17, 201916 min

Episode 269: HPC Market Update; Roadmap to European Exascale

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

Jun 14, 201920 min

Episode 268: NVIDIA Targets AI at the Edge; ThinkParQ Builds Buzz for BeeGFS

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

Jun 5, 201914 min

Episode 267: HPE to Acquire Cray / Lenovo Outlines Transform 3.0 Vision

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."

Jun 5, 201921 min

Episode 266: Oak Ridge Chooses Cray, AMD for Exascale; Intel Offers First Course of Xe Fare

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

May 23, 201917 min

Episode 265: New Dell Server Targets Machine Learning; Exascale Computing Project Update

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.

May 9, 201915 min

Episode 264: Xilinx Picks Up Solarflare; HPC Development in the Cloud

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

May 3, 201916 min

Episode 263: Intel's Agilex FPGA; Dell EMC Demos AI Benchmark

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

Apr 24, 201916 min

Episode 262: Intel Launches Cascade Lake; Optane DIMMs Join the Party

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

Apr 12, 201912 min

Episode 261: NVIDIA Accelerates Autonomous Driving; HPC Looks at Brexit

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

Apr 5, 201920 min

Episode 260: NVIDIA's 10th GPU Technology Conference; DOE Affirms Exascale Path

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

Mar 26, 201914 min

Episode 259: NVIDIA Wins Mellanox Auction; Trump Proposes 2020 Budget

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.

Mar 19, 201921 min

Episode 258: Exascale Updates and Early Career Insights; Notes From Rice Oil and Gas

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

Mar 13, 201918 min

Episode 257: D-Wave Chases 5000 Qubits; A Look at HPC and AI in Life Sciences

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

Mar 9, 201921 min

Episode 256: ClusterVision in Bankruptcy; ARM Intros 128-Core Design

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

Feb 22, 201911 min

Episode 255: American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence, and What IBM is Doing About It

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.

Feb 16, 201917 min

Episode 254: Scaling Beyond Exa; Intel Goes 3D

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.

Dec 22, 201819 min

Episode 253: Amazon Web Services Extends Its Reach in HPC, Hyperscale, and Enterprise

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

Dec 5, 201821 min

Episode 252: More News From SC18; Updates from Atos, Mellanox, and Panasas

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

Nov 22, 201813 min

Episode 251: SC18 Rolls on in Dallas; Processors Take Center Stage

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

Nov 15, 201816 min

Episode 250: US Widens Lead in Top Supercomputers; SC18 Kicks Off in Dallas

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

Nov 13, 201810 min

Episode 249: AMD Throws Down EPYC Challenge to Intel; A Look Ahead to SC18

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

Nov 9, 201821 min