Antonio Neri, CEO, HPE
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at HPE’s new CEO, Antonio Neri, a longtime HPE executive who previously served as President of the company. As the number 1 server vendor in the HPC space, this change will be one to watch as we transition to the exascale era in the next five years or so.
This transistion comes at an interesting time for HPE, as one of their main competitors, Dell Technologies, is reportedly looking at an IPO or reverse acquisition by VMware.
Closer to home in the HPC space:
- HPE just landed a huge deal at DoD Modernization for four supercomputers totaling 14 Petaflops of performance
- HP-CAST host Frank Baetke has left the company and will continue on as Chair of EOFS.
After that, we do our Catch of the Week:
- Henry points us to news about one of the worst Flash zero-day exploits yet. Just turn it off, guys.
- Apple is planning to release IOS 11.3, which will allow users to turn off their infamous throttling of iPhones in order to preserve battery life over time.
- Henry also notes that his laptop battery life has suffered greatly since applying the Spectre/Meltdown patch.
- Linus Torvolds seems to agree, saying that the Intel Meltdown patch is Complete and Utter Garbage. Both Intel and AMD say they will have new immune hardware by the end of the year.
- Earlier this week, Shahin went on a big acquisition of a new home office printer, opting for a rather spendy HP Color LaserJet Pro MFP M281fdw. Rich is sticking with his $30 Pantum.
- Rich points us to a new interview with Theodore Omtzigt from Posit Research. The Singapore startup is looking to build a new kind of supercomputer based on John Gustafson’s Posit Arithmetic.
- Rich has been turned into a long-term investor HODLer as a result of the ongoing Bitcoin price crash.
- Dan notes that Oracle has launched Blockchain as a Service.
