This Week In Hpc

In this special episode sponsored by HPE, Addison Snell speaks with Simon McIntosh-Smith, Professor of High Performance Computing at the University of Bristol, Mark Parsons, Director of EPCC and Professor of HPC at the University of Edinburgh, and Mark Wilkinson, Professor of Astrophysics and Director of the DIRAC facility at the University Leicester, about the Catalyst UK project and the role of ARM.

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Oliver Peckham discuss the launch of NERSC's new Perlmutter system, plus news from an Australian research team that lends credibility to the theory that COVID-19 could have originated from a Wuhan lab leak.

Addison Snell is joined by Ralph Zottola and John-Paul Robinson of the University of Alabama at Birmingham for a discussion of UAB's new Dell HPC system.

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader are joined by Oliver Peckham for a discussion of IBM's 2 Nanometer chip and AMD's design announcement.

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Microsoft's announcement as prime vendor for four HPE Cray supercomputers headed to the UK's Met office and analyze Cerebras' second-gen wafers.

Addison Snell is joined by Marek Michalewicz of the University of Warsaw for a discussion of the upcoming Supercomputing Frontiers Europe virtual conference.

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the big news this week out of Intel and Nvidia.

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the strategy behind Intel's newly-announced foundry business, plus quantum news out of the Cleveland clinic.

Addison Snell, Dan Olds, and Tiffany Trader discuss AMD's launch of Epyc "Milan."

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Dan Olds discuss the highlights of last week's Rice Oil and Gas Conference, plus news out of Oak Ridge National Lab.

Addison Snell is joined by Intersect360 Research's new Chief Research Officer Dan Olds for a discussion of their recent webinar and survey results; plus, personnel changes at HPE and Dell.

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the new lab "rabbit" at Lawrence Livermore Labs, plus an exciting new safety advance in tsunami warnings from Japan's RIKEN.

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the Air Force's launch of twin weather-forecasting supercomputers and consider the challenges of bandwidth in space.

Addison Snell welcomes Dr. Anne Fitzpatrick of the DoD in an interview about her chapter in the newly-released book, "Feedback Loops: Pragmatism about Science and Technology (Postphenomenology and the Philosophy of Technology)."

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss HPE's GreenLake on-prem announcement and new initiatives in US Supercomputing sphere.

Addison Snell is joined by Tiffany Trader and Oliver Peckham for a wrap-up discussion of SC20.

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the TOP500 list, big announcements from AMD and Nvidia, plus other Supercomputing news.

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Exascale Day activities and HPE's run of installations.

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discus NVIDIA's GTC news, plus the latest Liquid announcement from the DOD.

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader consider the meaning of Marvell's Thunder X3 play and ponder the feasibility of DNA-based computing.