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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 only has the technology landscape changed and the problem set expanded (think big data), but […]

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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 only has the technology landscape changed and the problem set expanded (think big data), but so has the recognition by users in both traditional HPC and emerging enterprise HPC communities that cloud computing has an important, perhaps critical, role to play. HPC in the cloud can’t do everything but it can do many things, and do them well, more cost effectively, and efficiently, argues Tim Carroll in this podcast with John Russell, Tabor Communications Editorial Director and HPCwire Managing Editor. See if you agree.

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 edge technology, to the software industry’s past slowness to get involved with advancing hardware technology development, to fostering new HPC […]

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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 edge technology, to the software industry’s past slowness to get involved with advancing hardware technology development, to fostering new HPC talent – even on whether the creation of a U.S. Department of IT makes sense. These are still early days but the consensus is NSCI will succeed to a substantial degree though worries over whether electioneering and the coming change in The Administration might slow momentum. The panelists all agreed NSCI is a promising first step and long-overdue overarching recognition of HPC’s importance. John Russell, Tabor Editorial Director and HPCwire Managing Editor, moderated the discussion. A list of the participants is below:

Steve Scott, Cray – Steve serves as senior vice president and chief technology officer. He’s responsible for guiding the long-term technical direction of Cray’s supercomputing, storage and analytics products.

Bill Mannel, HP – Bill is vice president and general manager of high-performance computing (HPC) and big data solutions for HP Servers, Hewlett Packard Enterprise.

Dave Turek, IBM – Dave is vice president of high performance computing at IBM with responsibility for IBM’s overall high performance computing strategy and market engagement.

Hugo Saleh, Intel – Hugo is the director of marketing and industry development for Intel’s technical computing group and has held a variety of engineering and leadership roles since joining Intel in 2000.

Gabriel Broner, SGI – Gabriel is vice president and general manager of high performance computing at SGI.

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 this podcast, Carroll discusses how some of the challenges and benefits of clouds have evolved […]

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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 this podcast, Carroll discusses how some of the challenges and benefits of clouds have evolved since his early work with Dell on cloud computing for HPC applications and how companies like Cycle Computing are bringing a new angle to the movement.

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 in the broader HPC community. As we’ve written about in detail through its development (read here) […]

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