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@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, Mark Nossokoff, Research Director, and Bob Sorensen, Senior VP of Research.

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.

@HPCpodcast-78: 2023 Year in Review

2023 Year in Review is our annual special edition as we look back at one of the more eventful years in recent history for HPC, AI, Quantum Computing, and other advanced technologies.

@HPCpodcast-71: Alain Andreoli – Industry View

We are starting a new feature, looking at HPC, AI, and other advanced technologies through the lens of industry leaders. In this episode, we have the pleasure of a very lively conversation with Alain Andreoli, a longtime luminary of HPC and IT. Mr. Andreoli was with HPE for more than 7 year where he served as group president and EVP of the Hybrid IT Group, helping shape HPE’s strategy for HPC including the acquisition of SGI in 2017.

@HPCpodcast-59: HPC Software

This episode starts to look at HPC software and its convergence with traditional enterprise IT software. We cover the evolution of software through phases of IT, the roster of relevant HPC software from development environment to system administration, and end-user requirements, and traditional and emerging applications. Future episodes and guests will focus on various aspects of HPC software.

This episode is sponsored by Lenovo.

@HPCpodcast-46: Year in Review 2022

Year-in-review double-issue episode covering some of the notable topics of the past year including: HPC market growth, China, exascale and future of supercomputing, quantum tech, SC22, AI, ACM Turing Award, interconnects, Nvidia-Arm deal, Chips and Science Act, HPC software, and fusion energy.

@HPCpodcast-23: ACM Turing Award Winner Jack Dongarra

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!

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

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.

@HPCpodcast-12: Framework for Top-10 Tech Trends

Web3, IoT/Edge, AI, HPC, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies, GPUs and Quantum, Cyber Risk, 5G, and BioTech represent the top-10 tech trends. Why are there so many big technology trends right now? Doug and Shahin discuss a framework to help make sense of why these trends point to important changes, how these trends are related, and what they mean individually and together.

@HPCpodcast-11: HPC Cloud Growth, Decision Parameters

HPC Cloud continues to grow rapidly as cloud providers pursue HPC workloads and build a variety of hardware configurations to attract them, and as Edge and Cloud help each other grow. We discuss the many dimensions of the decision to use public clouds for HPC.

@HPCpodcast-8: Intel Points to Zettascale in 2027

After SC21, Patrick Kennedy of Serve the Home online publication got quite the scoop when he met with Intel’s Raja Koduri to discuss Zettascale projections and plans, stipulating a 2027 timeframe. Is that realistic? Tune in and let us know what you think.

@HPCpodcast-6: Year in Review 2021

From COVID to Climate Change, Edge to Exascale, and AI to Autonomy, 2021 was an impactful year for HPC and Supercomputing, leading some of the most notable global technology advances and some of the most exciting business opportunities of our time. This episode is a lightning “year in review 2021” as we look back and look forward. Join us!

@HPCpodcast-3: Metaverse and HPC

Shahin Khan and Doug Black discuss the Metaverse, its consumer and industrial uses, competition for data, avatars and more realistic digital twins, commerce in the metaverse, and why so many parts of it, from immersive graphics to 5G include computationally intensive components.

HPC Brings AI to Enterprise Delivered as a Service

Shahin Khan recently moderated an HPE World Watch webinar on HPC and AI in the Enterprise delivered as a service. The discussion covers Cloud, HPC, and AI; how Digital Transformation is changing Enterprise IT; and what IT departments can do to stay in front of rapid change.

Edge Computing Drives the 4th Phase of IT

Edge Computing Drives the 4th Phase of IT

In this video interview, Shahin Khan talks about the strategic shift among core-cloud-edge and why compute at the edge, HPC at the edge, will seize the ascendancy in 2021.

RISC-V CTO on Open Source Chips and Use Cases

Mark Himelstein, CTO of RISC-V joins us to discuss what we think will be a very important part of the information technology landscape. RISC-V has cracked the code on taking an open source community approach to chip design. We can expect to see it everywhere from embedded IoT, to communication fabrics, storage, AI, HPC, accelerators, and more.

The Top-5 Technologies All Organizations Must Understand

30 minutes to cover the basics and high level issues related to the technologies that will drive the digital infrastructure of the future enterprise. These include IoT, 5G, HPC, AI, Blockchain (including cryptocurrencies and smart contracts), and Quantum Computing.

Digital Transformation (DX): Opportunity or Threat?

Digital Transformation (DX) is not just another slogan or IT upgrade, but a profound shift in what your customers want or will want, and what you have to do to deliver. It is a shift in your business model. Read about the many dimensions of DX and how OrionX can help you make it actionable.

HPC and AI on Wall Street: Panel Discussion on Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies

HPC and AI on Wall Street Conference At the recent HPC and AI on Wall Street conference, I moderated a panel on Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain. Panelists included Ryan Quick of Providentia Worldwide, Asha Dakshi of AlphaPoint, Eric Simone of ClearBlade, and Dan Simerman of the IOTA Foundation. Thanks to Jem Pagan of BluSky Consulting who […]

Top 50 of Crypto Mining – June 2019

Today, June 14, 2019, we released the second biannual list of Top 50 cryptocurrency mining pools. We do this in conjunction with the Top 500 supercomputing list that is released twice a year, in June and November. That list has been a matter of national pride for the US, Japan, China, and many other countries. […]

SC17 A Postview of the Supercomputing-17 Conference

Shahin and Dan review some of the most important technology advances out there, as seen at the SC17 conference. They discuss changes to the TOP500, New server chips (POWER and ARM), Liquid Cooling, and Quantum Computing. Also discussed: Y2Q, Quantum Supremacy, and Quantum-Safe cryptography. The OrionX TeamOrionX is a team of industry analysts, marketing executives, […]

Artificial Intelligence Customer Sentiment – OrionX Industry Survey

Co-hosts Dan Olds and Shahin Khan review the results of a recent “Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning” survey that OrionX conducted with over 300 high tech, industrial and commercial companies. See the data and find out how these trends may impact organizations’ AI strategies. The OrionX TeamOrionX is a team of industry analysts, […]

Secure IoT is the superset trend in tech, the ultimate hashtag soup, here’s why

There are more Things than anything else! And they’re going online in droves, adding capability but also vulnerability, and making the Secure Internet of Things (IoT), the super set of the technology trends. Secure IoT is the place with the most interdisciplinary, and therefore, the most difficult challenges. If you believe, as you should, that […]

New podcast for big ideas in tech

Here at OrionX.net, our research agenda is driven by the latest developments in technology. We are also fortunate to work with many tech leaders in nearly every part of the “stack”, from chips to apps, who are driving the development of such technologies. In recent years, we have had projects in Cryptocurrencies, IoT, AI, Cybersecurity, […]

Enterprise-HPC Industry Survey

In this inaugural podcast, co-hosts Dan Olds and Shahin Khan review the results of a recent “Enterprise HPC” data center survey that OrionX conducted with over 150 high tech, industrial and commercial companies. See the data and find out how these trends may impact organizations’ data center strategies.

Top-10 Data Center Predictions for 2017

A variation of this article was originally published in The Register, “Wow, what an incredible 12 months: 2017’s data center year in review”, Feb 6, 2017. The data center market is hot, especially now that we are getting a raft of new stuff, from promising non-Intel chips and system architectures to power and cooling optimizations […]

The Return of Vector Processing

Vector processing was an unexpected topic to emerge from the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC)held last week. On the Monday of the conference, a new leader on the TOP500 list was announced. The Sunway TaihuLight system uses a new processor architecture that is Single-Instruction-Multiple-Data (SIMD) with a pipeline that can do eight 64-bit floating-point calculations per […]

Research from OrionX

Today, we are announcing the OrionX Constellation™ research framework as part of our strategy services. Paraphrasing what I wrote in my last blog when we launched 8 packaged solutions: One way to see OrionX is as a partner that can help you with content, context, and dissemination. OrionX Strategy can create the right content because […]

Dan Olds Joins OrionX

Dan Olds, who founded Gabriel Consulting Group more than a decade ago, has joined OrionX. An important part of the OrionX magic is the ability to understand technologies, the competitive landscape,  and customer needs. We put a lot of effort into that. That is what clients need to connect products to customers, and to meet […]

IoT: The Ultimate Convergence

The Internet of Things (IoT) marketplace is expected to run into the trillions of dollars during the next 5 years. Gartner estimates 6.4 billion devices will be part of the Internet of Things this year. And they project $3 trillion of endpoint spending by the year 2020. [updated link] Gartner estimates 5.8 billion IoT endpoints […]

OrionX 2016 Technology Issues and Predictions

Here at OrionX.net, we are fortunate to work with tech leaders across several industries and geographies, serving markets in Mobile, Social, Cloud, and Big Data (including Analytics, Cognitive Computing, IoT, Machine Learning, Semantic Web, etc.), and focused on pretty much every part of the “stack”, from chips to apps and everything in between. Doing this […]

Benchmarks, Schmenchmarks: Big Iron Data and the November 2015 TOP500

There has been much discussion in recent years as to the continued relevance of the High Performance Linpack (HPL) benchmark as a valid measure of the performance of the world’s most capable machines, with some supercomputing sites opting out of the TOP500 completely such as National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois […]

Big Data and HPC: Convergence? (Part 2 of 2)

Last week, in Part 1 of this two-part blog, we looked at trends in Big Data and analytics, and started to touch on the relationship with HPC (High Performance Computing). In this week’s blog we take a look at the usage of Big Data in HPC and what commercial and HPC Big Data environments have in […]

Big Data meets HPC: Convergence? (Part 1 of 2)

Data volumes, velocity, and variety are increasing as consumer devices become more powerful. PCs, smart phones and tablets are the instrumentation, along with the business applications that continually capture user input, usage patterns and transactions. As devices become more powerful each year (each few months!) the generated volumes of data and the speed of data […]

Peter ffoulkes Joins OrionX

Today, OrionX is celebrating another great milestone as we welcome a new partner to our team!  Peter ffoulkes, who was most recently Research Director at 451 Research is joining OrionX. Thanks to the support of all of you, our clients, our colleagues, our community, OrionX is poised to continue to raise the bar for Strategy, […]

Long-Term Planning: The Next Hundred Years!

Long-term planning is an art. But it might take a real scientist to tackle a hundred-year planning horizon! Frank Wilczek is a Nobel Prize winner in theoretical physics, awarded for his work in quantum chromodynamics (quarks, to you and me). He is currently the Herman Feshbach Professor of Physics at M.I.T. Professor Wilczek was invited […]

Is In-Memory Computing the Holy Grail for Big Data Analytics?

The industry is awash with articles on big data. Big data news is not confined to the technical webpages anymore. You can read about big data on Forbes and The Economist for example. Each week the technical media reports on break through, startups, funding and customer use cases. No matter your source for information on […]