February 16, 2018

Moore's Law and High Performance Computing (Changelog Interviews #284)

1 hour 14 minutes

Todd Gamblin, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, joined us to talk about Moore’s Law, his work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the components of a micro-chip, and High Performance Computing.

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Featuring:

Todd Gamblin – GitHub, X
Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

The Changelog #267: Functional Programming with Eric Normand

If you’re a fan of Request For Commits, you can hear Todd on episode #13

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - High Performance Computing

Dennard scaling

Brain Chip - a brain-inspired computer by IBM

What is NIF (National Ignition Facility)?

Spack - flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers

Slurm Workload Manager

Lustre file system - open-source, parallel file system for HPC simulation environments

Enterprise Linux

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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