Episode 207: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman discuss Microsoft's new storage acquisition, Foxconn's six-petaflop supercomputer, and LRZ's upgrade.
Two recently uncovered security problems that affect nearly every CPU on the planet have forced companies to issue fixes that could seriously impact performance. While Intel has taken the brunt of bad press, chips supplied by AMD, IBM, and ARM vendors are also affected.
Chris Downing, senior consultant at Red Oak Consulting, takes a look at what's ahead for high performance computing in the coming year. In particular, he focuses on what's in store for some of the major HPC suppliers AMD, Nvidia, Intel, and niche hardware providers as well as the prospects for cloud computing.
Microsoft has signed an agreement to acquire Avere Systems, bringing its high-performance storage technology in-house.
A six-petaflop system has been installed at Taiwans Kaohsiung Software Technology Park, making it the most powerful supercomputer in the country.
Episode 206: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman give their analysis of 2017's top HPC trends.
Episode 205: Addison Snell and Michael Feldman analyze IBM's Power9 announcement and the fraud story at PEZI Computing.
Intel has released the Stratix 10 MX, the companys first FPGA family that includes integrated High Bandwidth Memory (HBM2).
The past 12 months encompassed a number of new developments in HPC, as well as an intensification of existing trends. TOP500 News takes a look at the top eight hits and misses of 2017.
Episode 204: Addison Snell interviews the students and coaches from the first ever all-high-school team to compete in SC's Student Cluster Competition.
