Scaling Intelligence

Sagar Dolas, Program Manager at SURF — the Dutch national organization for digital infrastructure in research and higher education — joins Kevin Jackson to challenge one of HPC's most enduring assumptions: that bigger machines produce more science. Sagar argues that raw compute capacity and scientific productivity are not the same thing, and that the gap between them is growing. At SURF, he and hi...

Thomas Hauser is the former director of the Computational and Information Systems Lab (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and a HALO member — one of the most consequential HPC facilities in Earth system science. In this episode, he traces his career from computational fluid dynamics and Cray-era supercomputing to leading the team behind Derecho — NCAR's newest system, dep...

Petr Bednarik is Enterprise AI Global Lead at Bull, the newly independent French sovereign AI company carved out of Atos and backed by the French sovereign fund. In this episode, Kevin Jackson talks with Petr about Bull's strategic transformation — from HPC hardware vendor to a full-stack AI provider covering infrastructure, data platforms, and end-to-end use case delivery. Petr brings a rare vant...

In this episode of Scaling Intelligence , Kevin Jackson speaks with Raphaël Brochard, General Manager of Energy Aware Runtime (EAR) — a spin-off from Barcelona Supercomputing Center — about why energy efficiency is becoming a hard constraint for AI and HPC data centers. EAR delivers real-time, vendor-agnostic energy optimization across CPUs, GPUs, and I/O — automatically reducing GPU energy use by...

In this episode of Scaling Intelligence , Kevin Jackson speaks with Dr. Barr von Oehsen , Director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) , about how PSC is helping shape the future of AI infrastructure, quantum computing, and advanced research computing . Barr shares his path from pure mathematics to leading one of the nation’s premier supercomputing centers, then explains why PSC is pushi...

In this episode of Scaling Intelligence , Addison Snell speaks with Keith Gray , VP of Computational Science and Engineering at TotalEnergies , about why the energy sector is now the fastest-growing market for HPC and AI. They discuss how AI is being integrated into physics-based workflows, why HPC remains essential for seismic imaging and reservoir simulation, and how advanced computing is accele...

In this episode of Scaling Intelligence , we speak with Rosa Badia , Director of the HPC Software Research Area at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) , live from SC25. Rosa discusses her new leadership role overseeing BSC’s HPC software research, how the center is organizing work across HPC, AI, and hardware, and what she’s seeing as AI rapidly reshapes supercomputing. We explore BSC’s effo...

In this episode, recorded live at SC25, we talk to the CEA and GENCI team behind Alice Recoque , Europe’s newest exascale-class AI Factory. We cover why the system honors AI pioneer Alice Recoque, how AI + HPC + quantum converge in this architecture, what makes the access model so SME-friendly, and why this system matters for Europe’s sovereignty agenda. A concise, insider look at the team buildin...

Host Kevin Jackson talks with Anders Jensen, Executive Director of Executive Director of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), about Europe’s first exascale system JUPITER, AI factories, digital sovereignty, RISC-V innovation, and quantum ambitions—revealing how EuroHPC is shaping the future of Europe’s high-performance and energy-efficient computing.

Discover the human side of high-performance computing (HPC) . In this episode of Scaling Intelligence , host Antonia Maar talks with Jay Lofstead , Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories , about mentorship, inclusion, and community building — with a side of gelato. 🍦 Jay shares his unconventional journey into HPC and AI research , the story behind the now-global HPC G...

In this episode of the Scaling Intelligence podcast, Intersect360 Research's Addison Snell sits down with SNIA board chair Dr. J Metz and communications co-chair Scott Shadley to explore the evolving landscape of data storage and infrastructure. The conversation digs deep into SNIA’s organizational transformation in response to major industry inflection points— like the rise of AI and hyperscale c...

Torsten Hoefler, ISC25 Program Chair, on Community, Connections, and the Vital Role of HPC and AI by Scaling Intelligence

In this special ISC25 edition, Mark Stickells, CEO of the Pawsey Supercomputing Research Centre, discusses the transformative impact of supercomputing on global scientific research. Recorded on the occasion of SC25, the world’s premier supercomputing conference, Mark highlights Pawsey’s contributions to breakthrough research in astronomy, life sciences, energy, and quantum computing. Learn how Paw...

Cristin Merritt of Women in HPC: Kicking off HALO's New Podcast by Scaling Intelligence