httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY5sa7TKX7Y In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team takes a look at Glacier, Amazon’s cloud archive and backup offering. Amazon is pitching Glacier as a solution for customers who don’t need frequent access to their data and can handle retrieval times of several hours. The big enticements are low, low cost — as little […]
Podcast: Radio Free HPC on the Future of Tape Storage
October 17, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lU0Ky68d3c In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at tape storage. Is that parrot completely dead, or is it just resting? Is tape now legacy technology, or is it alive and well? And can’t our data just all go in the cloud anyway? In more ‘legacy’ talk, Dan posits that Henry whittled the […]
Slidecast: Introducing CUDA 5
October 15, 2012 by
In this video, Nvidia’s Will Ramey presents an introduction to the CUDA 5 programming environment. CUDA is a parallel computing platform and programming model invented by NVIDIA. It enables dramatic increases in computing performance by harnessing the power of the graphics processing unit (GPU). With millions of CUDA-enabled GPUs sold to date, software developers, scientists […]
Podcast: Radio Free HPC Looks at the Clothesline Paradox
October 15, 2012 by
In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team takes a look at the OSCON Open Source Convention, where Tim Tim O’Reilly’s presentation on the “Clothesline Paradox” aptly illustrated the way developers create value. Since many large companies such as Comcast make a living on open-source software, Dan digresses into a string of complaints about his […]
Podcast: Radio Free HPC on the Energy Wall of Exascale
October 11, 2012 by
Power is a major challenge standing in the way of the Exascale computing. While the target is to consume 20 MW or less for an exascale machine, current technology trends will not take us there by 2018. In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses why this is such a tough challenge, where such […]
BigData, meet BigCompute: 1 Million Hours, 78 TB of genomic data analysis, in 1 week
October 4, 2012 by
Cycle Computing CEO Jason Stowe writes that the winners of the company’s BigScience Challenge were able to do amazing science with their awarded compute time in the Cloud. It seems like every day at Cycle, we get to help people do amazing work, but this week is a little different. This week we wrapped up […]
Podcast: Intel CIO Perspective on Big Data
October 2, 2012 by
In this podcast (audio only with still image) Intel CIO Kim Stevenson discusses how Intel IT is looking to leverage predictive analytics to deal with the sea of data out there, and how this is already creating new opportunities for the organization. Download the MP3.
Slidecast: Adapteva Uses Kickstarter to Fund Parallella Project
September 28, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taAG9QNWLNo In this slidecast, Adapteva Founder & CEO Andreas Olofsson describes the new Parallella project, an open-source development platform for low-power parallel computing. In an attempt to finance the project, the company is launching Parallella as a Kickstarter campaign so that the development platform can be offered for only $99 dollars. Read the Full Story […]
Podcast: Radio Free HPC on the Exascalar Benchmark
September 25, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3999I0UDyu0 In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team discusses the Exascalar measure/benchmark and what it’s telling us. Exascalar combines Top500 and Green500 data in order to see if the industry is on track to hit the goal of an exascale system that consumes less than 20MW of juice by 2020. Like usual, the conversation takes […]
Slidecast: OCF enCORE is HPC on Demand
September 24, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YIJ81TnIy8 In this slidecast, Jerry Dixon from OCF describes the company’s new enCORE HPC-On-Demand service. OCF’s enCORE service provides a highly scalable compute facility that can be accessed on a pay-as-you-go basis via the Internet. No concerns over data centre space, power, cooling, or in recruiting and retaining the skills to implement and maintain your […]
