Tacc Podcasts

Podcast host Jorge Salazar reports on SC16 in Salt Lake City, the 28th annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. The event showcases the latest in supercomputing to advance scientific discovery, research, education and commerce.  The podcast interview features John McCalpin, a Research Scientist in the High Performance Computing Group at the Texas Advanced Computing Center and Co-Director of the Advanced Computing Evaluation Laboratory at TACC. Twenty-five years ago as an oceanographer at the University of Delaware, Dr. McCalpin developed the STREAM benchmark. It continues to be widely used as a simple synthetic benchmark program that measures sustainable memory bandwidth and the corresponding computation rate for simple vector kernels. Dr. McCalpin was invited to speak at SC16. His talk is titled, "Memory Bandwidth and System Balance in HPC Systems." John McCalpin: The most important thing for an application-oriented scientist or developer to understand