Sharad Singhal, Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Enterprise discusses OpenFAM, an open source software for Fabric Attached Memory. Sharad explains FAM’s benefits and how OpenFAM reliably supports FAM at scale. Sharad differentiates HPC applications from large memory applications supported by load-store memory interfaces. Sharad ends the podcast describing how he grew up listening to Apollo missions on radio, which has shaped his whole career.