08x06: HPC Technology Transfer with Los Alamos National Laboratory

Much of what we take for granted in the IT industry was seeded from HPC and the national labs. This episode of Utilizing Tech features Gary Grider, HPC Division Leader at Los Alamos National Labs, discussing leading-edge technology with Scott Shadley of Solidigm⁠⁠⁠ and Stephen Foskett. The Efficient Mission Centric Computing Consortium (EMC3) is working to bring technologies like sparse memory access and computational storage to life. These technologies are designed for today's massive scale data sets, but Moore's Law suggests that this scale might be coming soon to AI applications and beyond. The goal of the national labs is to work 5-10 years ahead of the market to lay the foundations for what will be needed in the future. Specific products like InfiniBand, Lustre, pNFS, and more were driven forward by these labs as well. Some promising future directions include 3D chip scaling, analog and biological computing, and quantum chips.

Guest: Gary Grider, HPC Division Leader at Los Alamos National Labs

Hosts:

⁠⁠Stephen Foskett⁠⁠, President of the Tech Field Day Business Unit and Organizer of the ⁠⁠Tech Field Day Event Series⁠⁠

⁠⁠Jeniece Wnorowski⁠⁠, Head of Influencer Marketing at ⁠⁠Solidigm⁠⁠

⁠⁠Scott Shadley⁠⁠, Leadership Narrative Director and Evangelist at ⁠⁠Solidigm⁠⁠

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