Not surprisingly, Tim Carroll is unambiguous about whether HPC is ready for the cloud. It absolutely is, says Carroll. He is, after all, VP of Sales and Ecosystem, for cloud computing specialist, Cycle Computing. Forget the past, he argues. Not

Industry Leaders on the Promise & Peril of NSCI

Aug 27th, 2015 39m 17s

Five senior executives from Cray, HP, IBM, Intel and SGI weigh in on the new National Strategic Computing Initiative’s (NSCI) prospects in this exclusive HPCwire podcast. Discussion ranged widely from the need for long-term funding for leading

Tim Carroll Joins Cycle Computing, Discusses HPC Cloud Future

Jul 15th, 2014 13m 14s

On today’s edition we chat with long-time HPC community member, Tim Carroll, about the future of high performance computing in the cloud. Before joining Cycle Computing, Carroll was at Dell, where he was focused on the HPC market segment. In th

Update on the HPCG Benchmark

Jul 9th, 2014 17m 15s

On today’s episode, we talk with Dr. Michael Heroux of Sandia National Laboratories about the latest benchmark results for the new HPCG rankings. Heroux is a co-founder of the benchmark and is helping to spearhead its development and adoption i

Dr. Lorena Barba Talks “Women Who CUDA”

May 28th, 2014 11m 17s

Today we’ll be talking with Dr. Lorena Barba, an Associate Professor of Engineering and Applied Sciences at George Washington University. Barba is a well-known GPU computing proponent and user and is actively involved in reaching broader groups

Virtual Observatories for Big Scientific Data

May 12th, 2014 10m 6s

We’ll be talking about virtual observatories for big data today with Argonne National Lab’s Dr. Kate Keahey. We’ll discuss the concept of a facility for online data analysis that can support ongoing experiments and other time-critical scientifi

Real World Performance Gains with CUDA 6

May 9th, 2014 16m 17s

The CUDA 6 Performance Report has been released by the engineering team at NVIDIA, and is now available. We’ll talk about how some of the new elements in CUDA 6 are playing out, including the unified memory feature, and talk about real-world pe

Re-Routing Exascale Simulation Storage, Power Concerns

May 7th, 2014 13m 4s

Today we’ll be talking about power and storage constraints for exascale-class simulations with Jim Ahrens, Visualization Team Leader at Los Alamos National Laboratory. We’ll discuss these problems in the context of what Ahrens calls “cost per i

Behind the HPC Annual Budget Allocation Map

Apr 8th, 2014 11m 37s

Today we’ll be talking with Addison Snell, CEO at Intersect360 Research, about their 6th annual HPC budget allocation map. We’ll delve into some of the details to get a better sense of where dollars are being spent in high performance computing

Bringing Materials Science to the Cloud

Apr 7th, 2014 16m 30s

Today we’ll be talking with Jason Stowe, CEO of Cycle Computing. His company recently announced a partnership that will allow customers to run Schrödinger’s Materials Science Suite on the Cloud using Cycle Computing’s CycleCloud orchestration s

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