Intersect360 Research

This Week in HPC

Each week, Intersect360 Research CEO Addison Snell and analyst Michael Feldman dissect the week's top HPC stories.

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Jun 16, 2026

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Episodes

Episode 351: A Hopper full of news at GTC; and EuroHPC Summit Week 05.04.2022

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader analyze the news out of NVIDIA GTC 2022 as well as EuroHPC Summit.

Episode 350: Nvidia Acquires Excelero; New Consortium Aims to Connect Chiplets 11.03.2022

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Oliver Peckham discuss the details of Nvidia's Excelero acquisition and who is in (and who is not in) the newly-announced UCIe Consortium.

Episode 349: Atos Unveils Exascale Architecture / Intel Affirms Upcoming Advancements 26.02.2022

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Oliver Peckham discuss the details of Atos' newly-announced Exascale architecture, Intel's latest plans, and the Winter Classic Student Cluster Competition.

Episode 348: Meta's New AI Supercomputer / Lenovo Launches HPC as a Service 03.02.2022

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Oliver Peckham discuss the latest supercomputing announcements out of Meta and Lenovo.

Episode 347: Nvidia Acquires Bright Computing ... And Defends Intended ARM Purchase 20.01.2022

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader analyze Nvidia's acquisition of Bright Computing, plus the details of their proposed ARM purchase.

Episode 346: HPCwire and Intersect360 Research Wrap up SC21 at the Dell HPC Community Meeting 20.01.2022

Episode 346: HPCwire and Intersect360 Research Wrap up SC21 at the Dell HPC Community Meeting by Intersect360 Research

Episode 345: No News is Big News in TOP500 List 16.11.2021

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Oliver Peckham delve into the new TOP500 list at SC21, which may be more notable for what's missing — Frontier and the two Chinese exascale system — than for what's on it.

Episode 344: AMD Stacks its Chips with All-In Launch / NVIDIA Makes an Omniverse of Announcements 16.11.2021

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader delve into this week's big announcements from AMD and NVIDIA in advance of SC21.

Episode 343: AMD's Next Instinct; Intel's HPC Re-Org 10.11.2021

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss AMD's latest announcement, Intel's re-org, and lead-up events to SC21.

Episode 342: The Most Unusual SC Conference Since Last Year 04.11.2021

Addison Snell interviews Bronis de Supinski, SC21 General Chair, about the opportunities, changes, and talks to look forward to at the upcoming SC21 conference.

Episode 341: Dell Lands NNSA CTS-2 Contract; NCAR Prepares for Derecho 13.10.2021

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Dell's NNSA contract, plus NCAR's Derecho announcement.

Episode 340: Polaris Lights the Way Toward Exascale/IBM Enables Hybrid Cloud 23.09.2021

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Argonne's new Polaris system, plus IBM's IBM hybrid cloud Power10 server.

Episode 339: Atos Acquires Nimbix; Intel Adopts LLVM for Future Development 17.08.2021

Addison Snell is joined by John Russell for a discussion of Atos' acquisition of Nimbix and Intel's latest news.

Episode 338: Intel Does a Number on Node Names; Cornelis Forges a New Omni-Path 31.07.2021

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Intel's announced change in naming systems and Cornelis' Omni-Path announcement.

Episode 337: Top500, Keynotes, and More; Highlights from ISC2021 12.07.2021

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader share highlights of the ISC 2021 conference, their takeaways from the new Top 500 list, and more.

Episode 336: Pulling Rocky Out of a Red Hat; Latest HPC Market Numbers from Intersect360 01.07.2021

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader analyze the latest entrant into the Linux space, plus the new market model and forecast just released by Intersect360 Research.

Episode 335: "Future Supercomputers" at ISC 24.06.2021

HPCwire Managing Editor Tiffany Trader interviews Jean-Marc Denis, European Processor Initiative (EPI) Chair of the Board and Head of Strategy at Atos, about EPI activities and his upcoming ISC talk, "Future Supercomputers are game changers for processor architecture. Why?"

Episode 334: Catalyst UK Project Showcases ARM 16.06.2021

In this special episode sponsored by HPE, Addison Snell speaks with Simon McIntosh-Smith, Professor of High Performance Computing at the University of Bristol, Mark Parsons, Director of EPCC and Professor of HPC at the University of Edinburgh, and Mark Wilkinson, Professor of Astrophysics and Director of the DIRAC facility at the University Leicester, about the Catalyst UK project and the role of...

Episode 333: NERSC's Perlmutter Says 'Hello, World'; Does HPC Point to COVID Lab Leak? 11.06.2021

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Oliver Peckham discuss the launch of NERSC's new Perlmutter system, plus news from an Australian research team that lends credibility to the theory that COVID-19 could have originated from a Wuhan lab leak.

Episode 332: HPC at UAB 19.05.2021

Addison Snell is joined by Ralph Zottola and John-Paul Robinson of the University of Alabama at Birmingham for a discussion of UAB's new Dell HPC system.

Episode 331: IBM Research Demos 2 Nanometer Process; AMD, Design Thyself 18.05.2021

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader are joined by Oliver Peckham for a discussion of IBM's 2 Nanometer chip and AMD's design announcement.

Episode320: Microsoft Serves Up Supercomputing to UK Met Office; Cerebras Cooks Up Second-Gen Wafer 12.05.2021

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Microsoft's announcement as prime vendor for four HPE Cray supercomputers headed to the UK's Met office and analyze Cerebras' second-gen wafers.

Episode 329: Supercomputing Frontiers Europe 2021 10.05.2021

Addison Snell is joined by Marek Michalewicz of the University of Warsaw for a discussion of the upcoming Supercomputing Frontiers Europe virtual conference.

Episode 328: Intel Launches Ice Lake; Nvidia Looks Ahead to Project Grace 23.04.2021

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the big news this week out of Intel and Nvidia.

Episode 327: Intel's New Foundry Business; Cleveland Clinic Goes Quantum 07.04.2021

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the strategy behind Intel's newly-announced foundry business, plus quantum news out of the Cleveland clinic.

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