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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
@HPCpodcast-101: Live from Nvidia GTC25
In what is becoming an annual tradition, we are “Live from Nvidia GTC25” AI-everywhere show. We cover everything from industry landscape to Hopper to Blackwell to Rubin and Feynman, plus silicon photonics for cluster interconnect fabric (star of the show, really), the complexity of inference for customers, low-end systems, power and cooling (did we hear 600 KW per rack?), software including cluster-level AI-workload-focused open-sourced Dynamo “OS”, and storage (the semantic kind).
HPC News Bytes – 20250317
– What to expect from Intel’s new CEO
– Did D-Wave achieve quantum computational supremacy on a useful problem?
– “AI Woodstock” GTC25 is in San Jose, CA this week
@HPCpodcast-100: Dr. Ian Cutress on the State of AI and Advanced Chips – In Depth
Just before the GTC25 conference, and in the 100th episode of the full format @HPCpodcast, we welcome a very special guest, the great Dr. Ian Cutress, Chief Analyst at More Than Moore and host of the popular video channel TechTechPotato to discuss the state of AI and advanced chips, new technologies and architectures, the startup scene, and top trends in semiconductor design & manufacturing. Join us!
Analyst Roundtable: Chips, AI, Search, Quantum, Bitcoin, Fusion – OXD26
Analyst roundtable with Adrian Cockcroft, Stephen Perrenod, Chris Kruell, and Shahin Khan covering recent advances in, and impacts of: Chips, AI, Search, Quantum Computing, Bitcoin, and Fusion energy.
HPC News Bytes – 20250310
– TSMC $100B investment in Arizona Factories
– EuroHPC Project DARE using RISC-V
– Jülich Hybrid Supercomputer with D-Wave
– Quantum Computing Stock Price Volatility
– Chinese Quantum Computer Betters Google’s Willow
– Supercomputing Asia 2025 (SCA25) held this week in Singapore
@HPCpodcast-99: Dr. Handel Jones on Geopolitics of Technology – In Depth
Dr. Handel Jones, author of the book When AI Rules the World: China, the U.S., and the Race to Control a Smart Planet, and CEO of International Business Strategies, Inc. joins us again to discuss the geopolitics of technology. Dr. Jones was a specia; guest of this podcast in episode 48 in January 2023. Fast moving technologies matched with big changes in global politics and policy creates a potent mix. So we were delighted to have the opportunity to revisit many of the topics we covered last time and explore new topics.
HPC News Bytes – 20250303
– Government layoffs funding disruptions cause uncertainty and concern for scientific leadership
– Cat Qubits: AWS Ocelot, Alice and Bob
– ASIC vs GPUs vs Accelerators
@HPCpodcast-98: Hyperion Research on HPC, AI, Quantum – In Depth
We are delighted to have as special guests today three of the top analysts in the HPC, AI, Cloud, and Quantum fields, representing the industry analyst firm Hyperion Research. Earl Joseph is Hyperion CEO with oversight for Hyperion’s overall research and consulting efforts along with the firm’s HPC User Forum, which conducts conferences in the US and around the world throughout the year, Mark Nossokoff, Research Director and Lead Analyst for Storage and Interconnects and Cloud, and Bob Sorensen, Senior VP of Research, who focuses on Exascale, Supercomputing, Quantum, and other future technologies.
Join us for an In Depth discussion of the current state and future trends in HPC, AI, Quantum, Cloud Computing, Exascale, Storage, Interconnects and Optical I/O, and Liquid Cooling.
Mktg_Podcast-50: Sustainable Success, AI vs Search
– Be Creative !?
– Complexity of success
– Repeatability of success
– SBUX re-success
– Nvidia continuous success
– AI vs. Search

HPC News Bytes – 20250324
– GTC25 Quantum Day
– Post-Quantum Cryptography guidelines
– Quantum Blockchain?
– NVMe-enabled HDD storage with SSD cache