In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Dan’s recent talk on High Performance Interconnects.
When it comes to choosing an interconnect for your HPC cluster, what is the best way to go? Is offloading better than onloading? You can find out more by watching Dan’s talk from the HPC Advisory Council Australia conference.
In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Australia Conference, Dan Olds presents: High Performance Interconnects.
The good folks at OrionX.net have posted a number of free papers on this subject as well.
After that, we do our Catch of the Week:
- Pacemakers hacked! Almost half a million people in the United States are highly recommended to get their pacemakers updated, as they are vulnerable to hacking.
- 404 Japan! Last Friday, someone in Google fat-thumbed a border gateway protocol (BGP) advertisement and sent Japanese Internet traffic into a black hole.
- Lower prices! Amazon completed its acquisition of Whole Foods, and the first thing they did was lower prices. Listeners get Bonus Points if you can tell us what two items Henry bought on his recent shopping trip there.
- Kids at SC17. Rich notes that SC17 will have on-site day care once again this year. Meanwhile, Dan wants to put the little munchkins to work.
