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Join Shahin Khan and Doug Black, insideHPC’s editor-in-chief, in their weekly discussion of key technology trends that drive high performance computing and artificial intelligence.
Podcasts
Mktg_Podcast-29: Social Media Wars, Crude Data, D2C
Cartoon of the weak is about bad marketing and so we have to discuss the role of marketing and the importance of alignment between CMO and CEO, then it’s the unfolding social media wars with Meta’s new Threads app and Twitter, and the complications that can arise from Direct to Consumer (DTC) marketing. We end with Data-is-Oil and how crude data, like crude oil, must be refined and out to use before it has high value at smaller volume.
@HPCpodcast-65: Linux Wars w Joe Landman
Dr. Joe Landman joins us to discuss how the open source OS community has found itself in the middle of the kind of Linux wars that can change the industry. The recent firestorm in the Linux world erupted when Red Hat changed the access mechanism and distribution rights of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux. We unpack what happened, who it affects, and how the landscape might change. Joe has been a business and technology leader, a hands-on engineer and architect, and a data analyst and researcher. A computational physicist by training he has was one of the early pioneers of custom and accelerated systems. Read his blog on this and other HPC software here.
HPC News Bytes – 20230710
New in the @HPCpodcast, a weekly news show, 3-5 min, on important industry news.
– LLNL El Capitan
– LLNL Director Kim Budil named as one of the Most Creative People in Business for 2023 by Fast Company
– Inflection AI’s 22k GPU system
– NYS DFS AI
– Intel & Nvidia collaborate on Confidential Computing
– Photonics News
– Linux Wars
@HPCpodcast-64: RISC-V CTO Mark Himelstein
Mark Himelstein, CTO of RISC-V joins us to discuss the latest developments with the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA) and its growing community and footprint. Topics include HPC type use cases from sensor to supercomputer, achieving customization without loss of compatibility, AI and its impact on chips and systems, and the question on everyone’s mind: when do we see RISC-V in servers and supercomputers!
You may also be interested in Shahin’s conversation with Mark in August 2020 and see how things have evolved.
@HPCpodcast-63: Quantum Computing with Bob Sorensen
What’s the latest in quantum computing? Special guest Bob Sorensen of Hyperion Research joins us again to discuss market growth, customer sentiment, recent advances in noise management, applications, and the geopolitics of quantum computing.
Mktg_Podcast-28: AI, Product (4 Ps of Marketing)
Cartoon of the week leads to the looming rise of AI and what it means for marketing and how businesses should be responding to the new technology in a way that serves them. Then it’s time to discuss Product, the first of the 4 Ps of marketing.
@HPCpodcast-62: Exascale Software with Sunita Chandrasekaran
University of Delaware Professor Sunita Chandrasekaran joins us to discuss exascale software, directive based parallel programming, the emergence of research software engineering as a career, what AI will mean for the industry, and the importance of communication and community among teams.
This episode is sponsored by Lenovo.
@HPCpodcast-61: ISC23 Postview and Future of IT
A look back at ISC23 including quantum computing, EuroHPC, the future of Supercomputing with a backdrop of Integrated Research Infrastructure (IRI), AI, and Cloud, and whether we are living in times when “everybody” is a systems company.
This episode is sponsored by Lenovo.
Mktg_Podcast-27: Data, Driverless Marketing, Inclusivity
The Cart (cartoon) of the week is about data and instigates a big discussion about complexity of marketing data leading to a future when “Driverless Marketing” might become a reality. The noble goal of moving your brand towards more inclusivity did not work out as planned for Anheuser–Busch. We end with a discussion of quotes and memes that have their heart in the right place but are too sweeping for their own good and make it sound like “you had to be there”!

HPC News Bytes – 20230717
– SC23 registrations open
– Export control
– Linux wars continue
– Chiplet scale-out, or is it cloud?
– Quantum Computing calculates tackles the hydrogen molecule (H2), it’s a start