In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at why the Alan Turing Institute is focusing on Graph Computing with their acquisition of a Cray Urika-GX supercomputer.
‘Hosted at the University of Edinburgh in the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), the Cray Urika-GX system will provide researchers at the Alan Turing Institute with a dedicated analytics hardware platform, enabling the development of advanced applications across a number of scientific fields including engineering and technology, defense and security, smart cities, financial services and life sciences.”
In this video from SC15, Patrick Wolfe from the Alan Turing Institute and Karl Solchenbach from Intel describe a strategic partnership to deliver a research program focussed on HPC and data analytics.
After that, we do our Catch of the Week:
- Henry points us to a story on Drone Hacking that should concern us all.
- Dan loves this story about a German Enigma machine found in a basement that somebody thought was just a typewriter.
- Dan also likes the Register story about the MIT Post-Doc staffer that got caught for insider trading after he Googled “insider trading” at work.
- Rich is impressed by the new Big Data agreement between the SKA Telescope project and CERN.
- Shahin likes the story of how the remnants of Radio Shack are auctioning off IPV4 addresses at something like $14 dollars a piece.
