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Each week, Intersect360 Research CEO Addison Snell and analyst Michael Feldman dissect the week's top HPC stories.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed conversations connect supercomputing hardware and industry events with the institutional choices and human questions surrounding them.
This Week in HPC turns supercomputing news into conversations about the decisions behind the machines. Addison Snell moves between interviews and roundtables, pressing on processor roadmaps, system design, conference priorities, and the institutional choices shaping…
When Intel cancels a GPU, you hear the disappointment behind the roadmap.
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A wide-ranging SC21 debrief links hybrid conference realities with AI ethics and cloud economics.
SC21's return to in-person supercomputing gives this This Week in HPC episode a clear frame: what changed when a major conference came back with both physical and virtual pieces, and what did that format reveal about HPC's next debates?
AMD's Milan X, MI200, Rackham, and roadmap updates make for a dense but practical pre-SC hardware briefing.
AMD's push to make its server stack feel more like a connected platform gives this episode a clear center. Addison Snell and Tiffany Trader move through Milan X, AMD's first server CPU with 3D chiplet technology, the MI200 GPU, and Rackham software, with a useful pause on the…
A grounded look at how SC21's chair handled uncertainty while trying to preserve the conference's communal life.
SC21 arrives as a practical test of how a major conference can return under pandemic uncertainty. Bronis Disupinski, General Chair of the conference and CTO of Livermore Computing at Lawrence Livermore National Labs, gives that challenge a clear operational shape, explaining how…
A clear look at Intel's reset and the HPC market signals around it.
This episode treats Intel's canceled Rialto Bridge GPU and the delay of Falcon Shores as the anchor for a broader HPC market view. It moves cleanly from roadmap strategy to chiplet flexibility, then widens to the conference circuit and the U.S. and U.K.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
This episode covers the launch of Intel's Sapphire Rapids processors and HPC-optimized Mac-series CPUs and GPUs, discussing manufacturing challenges, rebranding, and the integration of high bandwidth memory in x86 architecture.
This episode of This Week in HPC analyzes a creative financing deal between OpenAI and AMD, where OpenAI receives GPUs in exchange for stock warrants that could grant them 10% ownership of AMD, highlighting a shift in tech industry partnerships.
This episode covers Intel's cancellation of the Rialto Bridge GPU and delays to Falcon Shores, impacting HPC roadmaps.
SC21's Top500 conversation centers on China, where Tiffany Trader and Dan Olds cite Ocean Light in Qingdao at 1.05 exaflops and Tianhe-3 in Tianjin at an estimated 1.7 exaflops peak.
AMD's Instinct MI200 gets the headline hardware treatment here, with a two-die CDNA2 design, 128 GB of HBM2e, 3.2 TB/s bandwidth, and 47.9 teraflops of FP64 vector performance.
SC21 General Chair Bronis Disupinski says this year's supercomputing conference in St.
Addison Snell interviews Dr.
This Week in HPC hosts a video panel on racism in U.S.