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Every RCE episode, newest first. Each show page has an audio player, a download link and the show notes. Many recent episodes are also on YouTube.
RCE 118: MEEP
With Dr. Steven G. Johnson and Dr. Ardavan Oskooi about MEEP a free finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) software for electromagnetic simulations. Steven G. …
RCE 117: PMIx
With Ralph Castain about PMIx. The Process Management Interface (PMI) has been used for quite some time as a means of exchanging wireup information needed for …
RCE 116: Jupyter
With Dr. Brian Granger about Jupyter. Jupyter is a non-profit, open-source project, born out of the IPython Project in 2014 as it evolved to support interactive …
RCE 115: PBS Professional
With Dr. Bill Nitzberg about PBS Professional. PBS Pro software optimizes job scheduling and workload management in high-performance computing (HPC) …
RCE 114: NetCDF
With the authors of NetCDF. NetCDF is a set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and …
RCE 113: Shifter
With the authors of Shifter. Shifter is a prototype implementation that NERSC is developing and experimenting with as a scalable way of deploying containers in …
RCE 112: Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience
With the Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience. Chris Gorgolewski is a co-director of the Stanford Center for Reproducible Neuroscience and a research …
RCE 111: Deal.II
With the creators of Deal.II an open source finite element library. Wolfgang Bangerth is a computational scientist and a professor of mathematics at Colorado …
RCE 110: SAGE2
With the creators of SAGE2 Scalable Amplified Group Environment a browser tool to enhance data intensive co-located and remote collaboration.
RCE 109: iRODS
With the creators of The Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) open source data management software used by research organizations and government …-
RCE 108: Academic Torrents
With the creators of Academic Torrents a distributed system for sharing enormous datasets - for researchers, by researchers. The result is a scalable, secure, …
RCE 107: Julia
With the creators of Julia. Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users …
RCE 106: Singularity
With Gregory Kurtzer about Singularity a container solution for HPC and research environments. Singularity allows a non-privileged user to "swap out" the …
RCE 105: Impala
With Marcel Kornacker about Impala. Impala brings scalable parallel database technology to Hadoop, enabling users to issue low-latency SQL queries to data …
RCE 104: D-Wave Quantum Computing
With Denny Dahl about D-Wave and Quantum Computing. Founded in 1999, D-Wave Systems is the world's first quantum computing company.
RCE 103: EasyBuild
With Kenneth Hoste about EasyBuild. EasyBuild is a software build and installation framework that allows you to manage (scientific) software on High Performance …
RCE 102: Spack
With Todd Gamblin about Spack. Spack is a package management tool designed to support multiple versions and configurations of software on a wide variety of …-
RCE 101: Conduit
With Cyrus Harrison about the Conduit an open source project from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
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RCE 100: Fasterdata
With Eli Dart about the Fasterdata effort to document ways to make better use of networks for scientific uses. The Fasterdata Knowledge Base provides proven, …
RCE 99: perfSONAR
With Jason Zurawski about perfSONAR, a network measurement toolkit designed to provide federated coverage of paths, and help to establish end-to-end usage …
RCE 98: Spark
With Matei Zaharia about Apache Spark, a fast and general engine for large-scale data processing. Matei Zaharia is an assistant professor of computer science at …-
RCE 97: Jonathan Dursi
With Jonathan Dursi about his recent article HPC is dying, and MPI is killing it an article that spawned a lot of attention in good discussion for our …
RCE 96: Salt Stack
With Mike Place about Salt Stack, a fast and scalable systems and configuration management software for predictive orchestration, cloud and data center …
RCE 95: Open Compute Project
With Thomas Sohmers about Open Compute. Thomas Sohmers is the founder and CEO of REX Computing, a High Performance Computing startup that is focusing on …-
RCE 94: Libfabric
With Sean Hefty about Libfabric a software implementation of Open Fabrics Interfaces (OFI). Libfabric is designed to minimize the impedance mismatch between …
RCE 93: Shodor
With Bob Panoff and Scott Lathrop about Shodor a national resource for computational science education. Dr. Robert M.-
RCE 92: Michigan Autonomous Aerial Vehicles
With Jose Gomez and Alec Ten Harmsel about Michigan Autonomous Aerial Vehicles (MAAV) a team of students solving challenges autonomous flight. Jose Gomez is …
RCE 91: ADIOS Adaptable IO System
With Scott Klasky and Norbert Podhorszki about The Adaptable IO SYSTEM -- ADIOS an IO library with features to enable better performance and use for HPC. Dr.-
RCE 90: Numba
With Stanly Seibert Numba a just in time compiler (JIT) for accelerating Python code. Stanley Seibert is a software developer for Continuum Analytics working on …
RCE 89: Notre Dame Adaptation Collaboratory
With Jason Dzurisin and Jessica Hellmann about ND Adaptation Collaboratory for research, education, and collaboration in the area of adaptation and climate …
RCE 88: Elmer
With Thomas Zwinger, Mikko Byckling, and Peter Raback about Elmer an Open Source Finite Element Software for Multiphysical Problems. D.Sc Mikko Byckling is an …
RCE 87: SciDB
With Paul Brown about SciDB. SciDB Open Source Data Management and Analytics Software for Scientific Research, with Python and R interfaces. Paul Brown is the …
RCE 86: Eucalyptus
With Greg DeKoenigsberg and Vic Iglesias about Eucalyptus. Eucalyptus is an Open Source implementation of the Amazon AWS API's for building private cloud.
RCE 85: FraunhoferFS
With Christian Mohrbacher and Sven Breuner about FraunhoferFS (FhGFS). FraunhoferFS (FhGFS) is the high-performance parallel file system from the Fraunhofer …
RCE 84: Scalable Checkpoint/Restart
With Kathryn Mohror and Adam Moody about Scalable Checkpoint/Restart (SCR). An open-source library for implementing multilevel checkpointing in clustered …
RCE 83: Orio
With Boyana Norris about Orio. An open-source extensible framework for the definition of domain-specific languages and generation of optimized (C, Fortran, …
RCE 82: Chef
This was a joint podcast between RCE and the Food Fight about Chef a configuration management tool. The show is in two parts, what is HPC and what is Chef. Be …
RCE 81: Globus Online
With Steve Tuecke from GlobusOnline. A cloud-based interface for file transfers and data sharing hosted at The University of Chicago.
RCE 80: Chapel
With Brad Chamberlain and Sung-Eun Choi from Cray about Chapel.
RCE 79: Gluster FS
With Jeff Darcy of Red Hat about Gluster FS, a distributed scalable open source filesystem. Jeff has been working on distributed storage since NFS version 2 at …-
RCE 78: Netflix Cache Appliance
With Scott Long of Netflix about the new Netflix Cache Appliance. A FreeBSD box with a pile of disk and 2x10gig-e connections. Capable of massive reductions in …
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RCE 77: PerfExpert
With James Browne, Leonardo Fialho and Ashay Rane about PerfExpert, An Easy-to-Use Performance Diagnosis Tool for HPC Applications with Suggestions for …
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RCE 76: Distributed MultiThreaded CheckPointing
With Gene Cooperman and Kapil Arya of Distributed MultiThreaded CheckPointing (DMTCP) a tool for kernel-modification-free, transparent user-space checkpoint and …
RCE 75: Globus
With Stuart Martin about Globus, grid software for distributed resource sharing and data transfer. Stuart Martin is a Software Development Manager with the …-
RCE 74: Modern Fortran
With Steve Lionel of Intel about the modern updates to Fortran. Steve Lionel is a Staff Consultant for the Developer Products Division of Intel Corporation.
RCE 73: FFTW - Fastest Fourier Transform in the West
With Steven Johnson and Matteo Frigo about FFTW - Fastest Fourier Transform in the West. Matteo Frigo is Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Quanta Research …
RCE 72 HUBzero nanoHUB
Gerhard Klimeck is the Director of the Network for Computational Nanotechnology and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. He …-
RCE 71 HPC Allocation Models
With Preston Smith from Purdue, Brian Guilfoos from The Ohio Supercomputer Center, and Andy Caird from The University of Michigan about their CPU cycle …
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RCE 70: SC12 Student Cluster Competition
With Doug Smith and Peter Molnar about the 2012 Student Cluster Competition. Dr. Péter Molnár is an Associate Professor of Computer and Information Science at …
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RCE 69: Data Without Borders
With Jake Porway and Nikki Roda about Data Without Borders. UPDATE: After this interview was finished Data Without Borders finished changing their name to …
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RCE 68: mpi4py
With Aron Ahmadia and Matt Turk about mpi4py a set of MPI bindings for Python. Aron works at the intersection of applied mathematics, software engineering, and …
RCE 67: Lucene Indexing and Search V2
NOTE: The first version of this recording was truncated. This is the full show. Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Simon Willnauer about Apache Lucene a …
RCE 66: ROMIO MPI-IO
With Rajeev Thakur and Rob Latham about ROMIO an MPI-2 MPI-IO implementation. Rajeev Thakur is a Senior Computer Scientist in the Mathematics and Computer …
RCE 65: VSMP ScaleMP
With Shai Fultheim the founder and CEO of ScaleMP about vSMP. As founder and CEO of ScaleMP, Shai designed and architected the core technology behind ScaleMP …
RCE 64: MCAPI Multicore Communications API
With Sven Brehmer and Ted Gribb of PolyCore Software about MCAPI MultiCore Communications API. Sven Brehmer, President & CEO of PolyCore Software, is a founding …
RCE 63: XSEDE Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment
Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak withPhil Blood of the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center (PSC) about XSEDE the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery …
RCE 62: Ceph Petabyte Scale Storage
With Sage Weil about Ceph, a next generation distributed storage and filesystem for Linux. Sage Weil designed Ceph as part of his PhD research in Storage …
RCE 61: InsideHPC Musing
Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak withRich Brueckner of InsideHPC about going ons in the HPC community. Rich Brueckner acquired insideHPC in August, 2010 after …-
RCE 60: Modules
Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak withR. K. Owen about Environment Modules a common tool in use at HPC sites for manipulating users environments. R. K. Owen …
RCE 59: AMD Core Math Library ACML
With Chip Freitag of AMD about the AMD Core Math Library an high performance implementation of the BLAS and LAPACK in addition to FFT's and PRNG's.
RCE 58: K Computer
With Koh Hota and Shinji Sumimoto about the K Computer the current faster public computer in the world housed at the Riken AICS.
RCE 57: Duo Security
With Dug Song and Jon Oberheide about Duo Security a two factor authentication tool. Dug has a history of leading successful products and companies to solve …
RCE 56: Windows HPC Server
With Rodney Mach of HiperLogic about Windows HPC Server 2008. odney Mach is principal at www.hiperLogic.com, a HPC Consulting company selling and supporting …
RCE 55: CMake Cross Platform Make
With Bill Hoffman of Kitware Inc. on CMake the cross-platform, open-source build system. CMake is a family of tools designed to build, test and package …
RCE 54: SciPy Scientific Tools for Python
Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak withTravis Oliphant, Anthony Scopatz, and Warren Weckesser about SciPy (http://scipy.org/) Scientific Tools for Python.
RCE 53: Performance Co-Pilot
Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak withKen McDonell about Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) a framework and services that support system-level performance monitoring …
RCE 51: Fukushima
With Dr. Mike Hartman and Dr. Kim Kearfott about the Fukushima Reactors that were damaged after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan.-
RCE 52: ATLAS Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software
With Dr. Clint Whaley about ATLAS Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software a package of high performance BLAS and LAPACK routines auto-generated for your …
RCE 50: Zenoss
With Randal Rheinheimer of LANL and Simon Jakesch of Zenoss about Zenoss Core a cloud management and monitoring tool.
RCE 49: Trilinos
With Mike Heroux and Jim Willenbring of Sandia National Lab. about Trilinos.
RCE 48: NumPy
With Travis Oliphant of Enthought Inc. about NumPy. NumPy is a package needed for scientific computing with Python. Travis has worked extensively with Python …
RCE 47: ITAPS Interoperable Tools for Advanced Petascale Simulations
With Mark Shepard, Tim Tautges andCarl Ollivier-Gooch about ITAPS (Interoperable Technologies for Advanced Petascale Simulations).
RCE 46: dCache
With Paul Millar about dCache. Paul Millar has been working as a senior programmer within the dCache.org team for three years.-
RCE SE: Student Cluster Champions 2010
With the winners of the Student Cluster Competition National Tsing Hua University.
RCE 45: Supercomputing 2010
Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres muse about what went down at SC10.
RCE 44: Grid Engine (OGE/SGE)
With Daniel Templeton of Oracle about Grid Engine formally known as Sun Grid Engine. Daniel Templeton is the product manager for the Oracle Grid Engine product. …-
RCE 43: PADB
Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres Ashley Pittman of the padb (http://padb.pittman.org.uk) project, a 'Job Inspection Tool' for parallel computing. Ashley Pittman ( …
RCE 42: HPC in the Cloud
With Nicole Hemsoth about her research on HPC use in the Cloud. Nicole Hemsoth is the Managing Editor of HPC in the Cloud, a publication dedicated to covering …
RCE 41: ParaView Parallel Visualization
With Berk Geveci, Utkarsh Ayachit, and Ken Moreland about ParaView. Dr. Geveci leads the scientific visualization and infomatics teams at Kitware Inc.
RCE 40: XDMF eXtensible Data Model and Format
With Jery Clarke from the Army Research Laboratory about XDMF the eXtensible Data Model and Format. Mr. Jerry Clarke currently leads the Computational Science & …
RCE 39: xCAT Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit
With Egan Ford of IBM and Vallard Benincosa of Sumavi. They took time out to talk about xCAT, The Extreme Cloud Administration Toolkit Vallard Benincosa is a …-
RCE 38: IceT Image Composition Engine for Tiles
With Kenneth Moreland about IceT, The Image Composition Engine for Tiles. Dr. Moreland leads the scientific visualization research and development at Sandia …
RCE 37: TeraGrid Open Scientific Discovery
With Kay Hunt and Scott Lathrop of TeraGrid. Kay Hunt is the Project Coordinator for the TeraGrid Campus Champions Program, a national project sponsored by the …-
RCE 36: Discussion with a new HPC Administrator
With new High Performance Computing (HPC) System Administrators about getting started with HPC systems. Our guest Andre Gauthier is an HPC admin at Yale.
RCE 35: PVFS Parallel Virtual FileSystem
UPDATE: The first version of this show had some encoding issues. The current copy does not. Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak with Walter Ligon about PVFS2 the …
RCE 34: OFED OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution
With Betsy Zeller of Qlogic and Tziporet Koren of Mellanox about OFED the OpenFabrics Enterprise Distribution, the backbone of most Infiniband and iWARP …-
RCE 33: Hwloc Portable Hardware Locality
With Samuel Thibault of the University of Bordeaux and INRIA, about hwloc. Samuel Thibault is an Assistant Professor in the University of Bordeaux (France), …
RCE 32: Puppet a tool for data center automation
With Michael DeHaan of Puppet Labs about Puppet, a tool for data center automation. Michael DeHaan is the product manager for Puppet Labs ( …
RCE 31: lammps Clasical Molecular Dynamics
With Steve Plimpton about the classical MD code Lammps.
RCE 30 Condor High Throughput Computing
With Jason Stowe of Cycle Computing and Greg Thain of UofW Madison about Condor.
RCE 29 Blue Waters, Allocations use and history
With John Ziebarth of the Krell Institute and William Kramer of NCSA about the Blue Waters project and who can use it. A detailed podcast about the system will …-
RCE 28 MPICH2
With Dr. Ewing "Rusty" Lusk and Dr. William "Bill" Gropp about MPICH2. Ewing “Rusty” Lusk is director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at …
RCE 26: PLASMA - Parallel Linear Algebra Software for Multicore Architectures
With Dr. Jack Dongarra and Dr. Jakub Kurzak on PLASMA ( http://icl.cs.utk.edu/plasma/) Parallel Linear Algebra for Scalable Multi-core Architectures.-
RCE 25: SC10 Student Cluster Competition
With Hai Ah Nam of Oak Ridge, Tiki Suarez-Brown of Florida A&M, and Doug Smith of The University of Colorado about the Student Cluster Competition at Super …
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RCE 24: Petsc
With Matt Knepley and Jed Brown about the PETSc ( http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/) scientific toolkit. Jed Brown is a PhD student at ETH Zürich, working …
RCE 23: Gromacs
With Dr. David van der Spoel about Gromacs a free MD package. David van der Spoel is a professor in Computational Molecular Biophysics at the university of …-
RCE 22: MPI-3 Forum
MPI-3 Forum Survey Password: mpi3 MPI Comments email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Brock Palen …
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RCE 21: SC09 Supercomputing 09
MPI-3 Forum Survey Password: mpi3 Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak about our trip to Supercomputing 2009 in Portland OR. This is a short show with our limited …
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RCE 20: Silo
With Mark Miller on the Silo (wci.llnl.gov/codes/silo) storage format. Mark also works on the Visit (wci.llnl.gov/codes/visit) project which were our guests on …
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RCE 19: Scyld ClusterWare
With Josh Bernstein of Penguin Computing ( www.penguincomputing.com) about Scyld ClusterWare. Joshua Bernstein is a Software Engineer with Penguin Computing.
RCE 18: VTK
With Dr. Will Schroeder and Dr. Berk Geveci of Kitware ( http://kitware.com) about The Visualization Toolkit (VTK). Dr. Schroeder is President, CEO and …
RCE 17: NFS v4
With Dr. Peter Honeyman and Dr. Bruce Fields of Center for Information Technology Integration on NFSv4. Bruce Fields is an assistant research scientist at CITI, …
RCE 16: Rocks Clusters
With Mason Katz and Greg Bruno of UCSD (University of California San Diego) about the Rocks Cluster (http://www.rocksclusters.org/) distribution.
RCE 15: BCFG2
With Narayan Desai and Cory Lueninghoener of Argonne National Laboratory, about BCFG2 (http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2). Narayan Desai is a principal …
RCE 14: Lustre Cluster FileSystem
With Andreas Dilger of Sun on the Lustre (www.lustre.org) cluster filesystem. Andreas Dilger is currently one of the principal filesystem architects for the …
RCE 13: Boinc
With David Anderson ( http://boinc.berkeley.edu/anderson/) of the Boinc ( http://boinc.berkeley.edu/) Project. Dr. David P. Anderson received an MA in …-
RCE 12: BLCR
With Paul Hargrove of the Berkley Labratory Checkpoint Restart (BLCR) project, for checkpointing, restartaring and migrating HPC applications. Notes: All …
RCE 11: UM Atlas
With Shawn McKee from The University of Michigan about the Atlas (altas.ch) detector, part of the Large Hadron Collider (lhc.web.cern.ch/lhc/) at Cern.-
RCE 10: SLURM
With Moe Jette and Danny Auble of LLNL about the SLURM Resource Manager. Danny Auble joined the SLURM team in 2004 to develop the port to the IBM bluegene …
RCE 09: HDF5
Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres speak wtih Mike Folk and Quincey Koziol of The HDF Group about the HDF5 file API. Mike Folk is President and Executive Director of …-
RCE 08: Torque Resource Manager
With Josh Butikofer of Cluster Resources Inc. and Ake Sandgren of HPC2N about the Torque resource manager. Ake has been a sysadmin for the past 20 odd years.
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RCE 07: Cluster Planning
Brock Palen and Jeff Squyres have a short discussion with Douglas Eadline and Jeff Layton about planning of the construction of HPC clusters. Douglas Eadline, …
RCE06: VisIt
With Sean Ahern and Jeremy Meredith on the VisIt (http://www.llnl.gov/visit) visualization project. Be sure to check out VisIt Users (http://visitusers.org/).-
RCE 05: Open-MX
With Brice Goglin of the Open-MX (http://www.open-mx.org) project, a software implementation of Myrinet Express, providing low latency over stock ethernet …
RCE04: Hadoop
With Christophe Bisciglia of Cloudera (http://www.cludera.com) and the Hadoop (http://hadoop.apache.org/) Project, a free version implementation of MapReduce …
RCE03: Flash
With Aunshu Dubey of the ASC Flash Center at the University of Chicago about the Flash astrophysics code. Anshu Dubey is the lead architect for the FLASH code, …
RCE02: HOOMD
With Joshua Anderson and Carolyn Phillips of the HOOMD project. Joshua Anderson is finishing up his PhD in Physics at Iowa State University where he is …
RCE01 Open MPI
With Jeff Squyres and George Bosilca of the Open MPI project. Jeff Squyres is a founder and core developer of the Open MPI project.-
RCE00 Introduction
Introduction to RCE, we are looking for nominations and contacts for software projects. Please visit www.rce-cast.com and nominate your application and topic to …