httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z4OD92Pz34 In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Big Data and analytics. More specifically, the guys talk about a couple of examples of when over-reliance on analytics leads to bad outcomes. The first deals with some high school kids who were allegedly found to be cheating by a plagiarism software program and […]
Podcast: When Big Data Goes Bad – This Week on Radio Free HPC
September 23, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z4OD92Pz34 In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team looks at Big Data and analytics. More specifically, the guys talk about a couple of examples of when over-reliance on analytics leads to bad outcomes. The first deals with some high school kids who were allegedly found to be cheating by a plagiarism software program and […]
Podcast: Radio Free HPC Looks at Xeon Phi
September 22, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_23LSFLQhU In this podcast, the Radio Free HPC team talk about Intel’s introduction of their new Xeon Phi co-processor at ISC12, and what customers will need to do to take advantage of it. Henry Newman says something profound. We touch on the merits of an all pastry diet and the state of programming today. Rich […]
Podcast: Radio Free HPC Looks at the Student Cluster Competition
September 21, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SAwlkoTHoc With the SC12 Student Cluster Competition fast approaching, the Radio Free HPC team looks back at ISC’12 and their first-ever Student Cluster Challenge. Along the way, they discuss how the cluster challenge makes participating students a hot commodity on the job market, while Dan Olds proposes a joint challenge to crown a world student […]
Podcast: Radio Free HPC Ep3 – Is LINPACK Obsolete?
September 7, 2012 by
In this Radio Free HPC podcast, a recent conversation with Jack Dongarra (of Top500 fame) is the inspiration for a spirited discussion of whether the venerable LINPACK benchmark has outlived its usefulness. Is Henry Newman just cursing the darkness? What is a good benchmark and what isn’t? Download the MP3 * Download the Video * […]
Slidecast: Overview of Intel Parallel Studio XE 2013
September 5, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpXBHP7-Ih8 In this slidecast, Intel Tool Evangelist James Reinders presents an overview of the new Intel Parallel Studio XE 2013 and Intel Cluster Studio XE 2013 tool suites. With a host of new features, these toolkits include support for the pending Intel Xeon Phi co-processors for HPC. Read the Full Story * Download the MP3 […]
Slidecast: 10gen Steps up with MongoDB 2.2
August 30, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZWctMWvnS4 In this slidecast, Edouard Servan-Shreiber from 10gen presents an overview of MongoDB 2.2. MongoDB 2.2 has been a huge effort to make the database even easier to use and operate,” says Eliot Horowitz, 10gen co-founder and CTO. “We think that moving to NoSQL should make you a more productive software engineer, and features like […]
Slidecast: Making the Biggest Big Data Easy
August 27, 2012 by
httpv://youtu.be/X1ipPzV-GzA In this slidecast, 1010 Data CEO Sandy Steier presents: Making the Biggest Big Data Easy. The company has just re-launched its web site with a new look and a live demo. For well over a decade, 1010data has pushed the limits of analytics on large amounts of data, including “Big Data”. From routine reporting […]
Slidecast: Skyera Rolls Out Affordable Enterprise Flash
August 14, 2012 by
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWrIG1SmjU8 In this slidecast, Radislav Danilak and Tony Barbagallo from Skyera describe the company’s new cost-effective flash storage solutions for the enterprise. The ‘norms’ of solid-state storage have seen much change and improvement over the last few years” said Mark Peters, Senior Analyst at ESG, “But Skyera’s flagship product introduction challenges even the best of […]
Podcast: Teenager Designs Neural Net App to Detect Breast Cancer
August 6, 2012 by
In this podcast from NPR’s The Takeaway program, 17-year-old Brittany Wenger describes how she won the Google Science Fair 2012 with a cloud-powered, neural net application designed to help doctors diagnose breast cancer. Wenger noticed that the results from one of the least invasive biopsies, the fine-needle aspiration, were the most inconclusive. She worked to design […]
