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 301: Battling COVID-19 at Lawrence Livermore National Lab 10.04.2020

Addison Snell is joined by special guest Jim Brase, Computing Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, for a discussion of the efforts by LLNL and other supercomputing centers to defeat COVID-19.

Episode 300: HPC Responds to COVID-19; Intersect360 Research Adjusts Forecast Downward 30.03.2020

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader highlight the HPC industry's efforts to devote cycles to the fight against COVID-19, and Intersect360 Research revises its 2020 market forecast downward in response to the pandemic.

Episode 299: Supercomputing Takes on the Coronavirus 14.03.2020

Addison Snell is joined by special guest Carlo Cavazzoni, senior staff member of CINECA, for a discussion of CINECA's part in the coordinated European supercomputing effort to fast-track a viable drug treatment for COVID-19.

Episode 298: Another Exascale Win for AMD; Highlights from the Rice Oil and Gas Conference 11.03.2020

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss the details of AMD's El Capitan win, plus highlights from this year's Rice Oil and Gas Conference.

Episode 297: The Next Generation of Weather Supercomputers; New Systems Planned for US and UK 04.03.2020

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader detail two new weather systems slated for US and UK agencies.

Episode 296: Bursting Big Compute to the Cloud; Less Science in Trump Budget Proposal 15.02.2020

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader talk about Trump's proposed cuts to the national science agencies, plus Rescale's Big Compute event.

Episode 295: Fujitsu lines up first ARM deployment; Atos-AMD Upgrades at ECMWF 15.02.2020

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader return from hiatus with on overview of the biggest stories of 2020 so far in HPC, including Fujitsu's new ARM deployment and Atos' weather system installation.

Episode 294: An HPC Decade in Review; What to Watch for in the 2020s 24.12.2019

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader review the trends of the past decade in HPC.

Episode 293: Top500, +2; Major Updates from Intel and NVIDIA 06.12.2019

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader talk the top takeaways from SC19, rumors of secret Chinese supercomputers, and the coming chip wars.

Episode 292: Fujitsu's ARM Reaches Across the Ocean, and SC Heads Back to Denver 15.11.2019

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Fujitsu's ARM announcement and look forward to the big events of SC19.

Episode 291: HPC in the AWS Cloud 14.11.2019

In this sponsored podcast, Addison Snell is joined by Ian Colle, GM for High Performance Computing at Amazon Web Services for a discussion of the evolution of public cloud in #HPC and a look ahead to SC19.

Episode 290: DDN Touts Innovation at Scale 07.11.2019

Addison Snell is joined by DDN's James Coomer and Kurt Kuckein in this sponsored podcast.

Episode 289: Microsoft Pulls Off JEDI Trick; Eni's Next Peta-Whopper 06.11.2019

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Doug Black discuss how Microsoft pulled its latest DoD contract out from under AWS; plus, Eni's Dell system is announced to be the largest industrial supercomputer.

Episode 288: Cray Launches ClusterStor E1000; Did Google Achieve Quantum Supremacy? 04.11.2019

Episode 288: Cray Launches ClusterStor E1000; Did Google Achieve Quantum Supremacy? by Intersect360 Research

Episode 287: Dell-AMD Relationship Gets More Serious; Happy Exascale Day! 25.10.2019

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and John Russell dive into DellEMC's new blog and recap Exascale Day.

Episode 286: Oracle Touts Bare-Metal Cloud; Back-to-Back Wins for Lenovo 22.10.2019

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss Oracle's press and analyst day announcements, plus a pair of wins for Lenovo.

Episode 285: DOE's AI Summit; DARPA Invests in Fast Networks 11.10.2019

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader are joined by John Russell in conversation about the DOE's AI Summit and DARPA's latest initiatives.

Episode 284: Bringing AI and HPC Together 03.10.2019

Bill Wagner, CEO, Bright Computing, and Jay Boisseau, AI & HPC Technology Strategist, Dell EMC, are Addison Snell's guests this week on this special sponsored podcast, as they discuss the convergence of workloads and infrastructures in HPC and AI. Sponsored by Bright Computing and Dell EMC.

Episode 283: Green AI in Massachusetts; How to Crash into an Asteroid 02.10.2019

Addison Snell, Tiffany Trader, and Oliver Peckham discuss MIT's new GAIA system, plus NASA's plans for investigating asteroid diversion.

Episode 282: Insights from the AI Hardware Summit; More EPYC in Rome 28.09.2019

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss happenings at the AI Hardware Summit, plus AMD's EPYC Rome event.

Episode 281: HPC Cloud Migration with Univa 20.09.2019

Rob Lalonde of Univa joins Addison Snell for a special sponsored podcast, looking at migration to Cloud in HPC.

Ep. 280: Better Predictions in Financial Services; Insights from the HPC & AI on Wall St. conference 19.09.2019

Addison Snell is joined by John Russell and Doug Black of HPCWire and Enterprise AI for an overview of the HPC & AI on Wall Street conference.

Episode 279: Frontera Debuts at TACC, plus ... DARPA PAPPA and Hello Nanotubes 13.09.2019

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader discuss TACC's Fronterra system, DARPA's PAPPA, and the future of carbon nanotubes.

Episode 278: Cerebras Goes Big; IBM Goes Open 07.09.2019

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader analyze Cerebras and IBM's announcements from HotChips.

Episode 277: Cray Sweeps Exascale Podium; El Capitan to Take On Nuclear Stockpile 23.08.2019

Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader analyze the implications of Cray's DOE exascale sweep.

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