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@HPCpodcast with Shahin Khan and Doug Black

Supercomputing technologies and the applications, markets, and policies that shape them. Every episode is featured on InsideHPC.com and posted on OrionX.net. Use the comments section or tweet us with any questions or propose topics of discussion.

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@HPCpodcast-30: DOE RFI with Horst Simon, from System...

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2022/07/06

Following the Request for Information (RFI) issued last week by the DOE, we caught up with Dr. Horst Simon to take us through how the DOE is gearing up to go beyond Exascale. A very insightful conversation touching on many aspects of what's next! [audio mp3="http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/030@HPCpodcas_DOE-RFI-After-Exascale_20220705.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-30: DOE RFI with Horst Simon, from System to Ecosystem appeared first on OrionX.net.

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@HPCpodcast-29: Up Close and Personal with Frontier,...

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2022/06/30

The HPC User Forum held a special event at ORNL last week, included a viewing of the facilities and discussed the future of supercomputing hardware and software and staffing challenges of HPC sites. Doug Black was there. [audio mp3="http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/029@HPCpodcas_HPC-User-Forum-Frontier_20220630.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-29: Up Close and Personal with Frontier, and What Lies Beyond appeared first on OrionX.net.

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@HPCpodcast-28: LaMDA and AI Sentience, Crypto Price...

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2022/06/21

Sentience, consciousness, and personhood, and the urgency of thoughtful social policies based on ethical and legal frameworks. Also the state of Crypto and NFT: technologies that might find valid use cases often manifested as investment vehicles that require close scrutiny. [audio mp3="http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/028@HPCpodcas_LaMDA-Chatbot-AI_Bitcoin-Crypto-NFT_20220621.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-28: LaMDA and AI Sentience, Crypto Price Collapse appeared first on

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@HPCpodcast-27: Thomas Sterling, The State of HPC

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2022/06/16

Dr. Sterling is Professor of Intelligent Systems Engineering at the Indiana University (IU) School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, and President and Co-founder of Simultac. His many achievements include the creation in 1994 of the "Beowulf cluster" with Donald Becker at NASA, a system that helped drive the scale-out computing architecture. [audio mp3="http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/027@HPCpodcas_Thomas-Sterling_20220616.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-27: Thomas

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@HPCpodcast-26: ISC22 Postview: Frontier, Covid,...

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2022/06/07

ISC22, the annual International Supercomputing Conference was held last week in Hamburg, Germany, meeting in person after two years. This is a "postview" of the notable developments at this news-rich event. [audio mp3="http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/026@HPCpodcas_ISC22-postview_TOP500_Intel_SCC_20220606.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-26: ISC22 Postview: Frontier, Covid, Vendors, Students appeared first on OrionX.net.

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@HPCpodcast-25: Satoshi Matsuoka, TOP500, Fugaku...

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2022/05/25

Winner of the Purple Ribbon Medal, one of Japan's highest honors, Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka oversaw the development and launch of the Fugaku supercomputer, currently number 1 on the TOP500 list. He joins us in a super fun conversation covering a wide range of topics. [audio mp3="http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/025@HPCpodcas_Purple-Ribbon-Award_Fugaku_Satoshi-Matsukoa_20220525.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-25: Satoshi Matsuoka, TOP500, Fugaku Supercomputer, Nintendo appeared first on

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@HPCpodcast-24: Fastest AI Supercomputer, Chips...

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2022/05/18

Fastest AI supercomputer according to Google, price hikes by TSMC and Samsung, visualization of a black hole in our own galaxy, and IBM's ambitious and well-executed quantum computing roadmap. [audio mp3="http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/024@HPCpodcas_Fastest-AI-Supercompuer_Chip-Prices_Black-Hole_IBM-Quantum_20220518.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-24: Fastest AI Supercomputer, Chips Prices, IBM Quantum appeared first on OrionX.net.

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@HPCpodcast-23: ACM Turing Award Winner Jack Dongarra

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2022/05/04

We cover the Turing Award, TOP500, the state of HPC benchmarks, China's Exascale systems, and future directions in algorithms. We also talk about future of supercomputing and AI systems, and discuss proliferation of new architectures. This is another episode you'd want to listen to more than once! [audio mp3="http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/023@HPCpodcas_ACM-Tunring-Award-Jack-Dongarra_20220503.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-23: ACM Turing Award Winner Jack Dongarra appeared first

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@HPCpodcast-22: China Exascale, Twitter in play, Tech...

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2022/04/28

New research paper puts China's Exascale systems back in the news. And impending acquisition of Twitter leads to a discussion about the positive impact and policy challenges of our tech society. [audio mp3="http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/022@HPCpodcas_China-Exascale_Tech-Society_20220427.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-22: China Exascale, Twitter in play, Tech Society appeared first on OrionX.net.

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@HPCpodcast-21: HPC Storage with Gary Grider of LANL

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2022/04/21

Another must-listen episode, this time covering HPC storage with Gary Grider, leader of the high performance computing division of Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). News: Quantiniuum, investigating war crimes, multi-faceted math, and TSMC's quarterly revenues. [audio mp3="http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/021@HPCpodcas_Storage-with-Gary-Grider_20220420.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-21: HPC Storage with Gary Grider of LANL appeared first on OrionX.net.

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@HPCpodcast-20: New Segment Top-of-the-News, Storage

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2022/04/13

A new segment, Top of The News, covers Federal funding for PsiQuantum and Global Foundries, the AMD-Pensando deal, and Fujitsu's cloud offerings. The main topic is storage as we discuss Computational Storage, Erasure Coding, Storage-Class Memory, and Data-Centric AI. [audio mp3="http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/020@HPCpodcas_New-Segment-TOTN_Storage-tee-up_20220413.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-20: New Segment Top-of-the-News, Storage appeared first on OrionX.net.

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@HPCpodcast-19: ORNL’s Jeff Nichols on Frontier...

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2022/04/05

Special guest Dr. Jeff Nichols oversees DOE's National Center for Computational Sciences, and a key figure in the installation of breakthrough supercomputers such as Titan, Summit, and now Frontier. We discuss the past and future of supercomputing as we get a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Frontier, the $600 million 30 MW supercomputer at ORNL, comprised of 50-60 million parts in 100+ cabinets and slated to be the first exascale computer in the US. [audio

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@HPCpodcast-18: GTC22, Groundbreaking Advances, and...

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2022/03/31

Shahin and Doug go over what was unveiled at the NVIDIA GTC22 conference, vendor strategies, groundbreaking advances in the industry, and the geopolitics of semiconductors. [audio mp3="http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/018@HPCpodcast_GTC22-World-of-Chips_20220330.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-18: GTC22, Groundbreaking Advances, and Geopolitics appeared first on OrionX.net.

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@HPCpodcast-17: American Competitiveness and Future...

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2022/03/22

In a recent paper, Daniel Reed, Dennis Gannon, and Jack Dongarra, have started an important discussion about HPC, its future, and its impact on American competitiveness. We welcome Dan Reed as a special guest of the @HPCpodcast to go a level deeper. Dan is Presidential Professor of Computational Science at the University of Utah and a thought leader and luminary of supercomputing. [audio

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@HPCpodcast-16: AI in Science, a Conversation with...

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2022/03/11

We continue our discussion of AI in Science with Rick Stevens of Argonne National Lab. In addition to the new ways AI can help advance science, we also discuss ethics, bias, robustness, security,and explainability of AI, and whether AI can replace scientists. We end with a snapshot of Quantum Information Science (QIS). [audio mp3="http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/016@HPCpodcast_AI-in-Science-w-Rick-Stevens-part2_20220310.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-16: AI in Science, a

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@HPCpodcast-15: AI in Science, a Conversation with...

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2022/03/05

A special 2-episode discussion of AI in Science with Rick Stevens, Associate Laboratory Director and leader of Exascale Computing Initiative at Argonne National Laboratory and Professor at University of Chicago. Rick also led a series of Town Halls during 2019 focused on the relevance and applications of AI in scientific research. This is part 1 of our conversation. [audio mp3="http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/015@HPCpodcast_AI-in-Science-w-Rick-Stevens-part1_20220304.mp3"][/audio] The

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@HPCpodcast-14: Cyberwarfare in the Age of AI and HPC

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2022/02/28

Special guest Richard Stiennon, research analyst and author of Security Yearbook 2021, joins Shahin and Doug to discuss the state of advanced cyberwarfare involving AI and supercomputing, and its potential role in the war in Ukraine. [audio mp3="http://orionx.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/014@HPCpodcast_CyberWarfare-HPC-AI_20220227.mp3"][/audio] The post @HPCpodcast-14: Cyberwarfare in the Age of AI and HPC appeared first on OrionX.net.

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