For the second consecutive year Red Oak Consulting attended HPC & Big Data 2018 held at the Victoria Plaza Hotel, London, on the 6th February. Not only were we one of the exhibitors but we also held our very own seminar focused on HPC in the Cloud (Theory and Practice). The seminar had a great … Read more
Here, we Look ahead to 2018 – and specifically what the future has in store for some of the major HPC suppliers… Ready Player One The widely-praised Ryzen CPU release saw AMD re-enter the consumer CPU market as a strong competitor to Intel, and perhaps even the front-runner where cost optimisation is a more important … Read more
HPC, or High Performance Computing, is, somewhat reassuringly, exactly what it sounds like. Computers are, at their core, machines that we use to solve problems. They can range in size and simplicity from that of a pocket calculator, to a smartphone, to a desktop, all the way up to behemoths that take up entire warehouses, … Read more
CIUK was again this year held in Manchester, 12th – 13th December. Red Oak Consulting was delighted to be one of the guest speakers giving a presentation on HPC and Cloud. This years presentation was given by our Managing Consultant, Dairsie Latimer, and in traditional fashion generated a remarkable amount of debate and audience interaction. A … Read more
The next time you are at one of the industry’s get-togethers try asking your colleagues if they have delivered any projects on time/budget recently. When they assure you that their projects are always delivered on time and to budget probe a bit deeper (possibly involving beer!), “Was that the timetable/budget initially agreed with the sponsor/budget … Read more
Super Computing is a leading industry event, which is held every year in the USA, with the who of who in attendance from the world of HPC and Cloud. This year we are delighted to say we had another great successful year. With a record number of attendees for the tutorials we co-hosted and our HPC discussion panel, led … Read more
For those of us who are also delivering content at SC17, we’ve already been busy with the business of submitting slides to the selection committees and generally ensuring that things will run as smoothly as they can, given the general mayhem levels that ensue during show week! Tutorials and Panel sessions As usual there’s lots … Read more
Much of the current HPC community is behaving, excuse the gross stereotyping, a little like a dinosaur, wondering what that large red fireball in the sky is. Why? Look at the steady growth of public cloud adoption. Now consider the inevitable improvement in technical capabilities and the volume pricing that large cloud vendors can offer, … Read more
On the 13th September 2017 Red Oak Consulting held their first customer seminar focused on HPC and Cloud – Where does your business stand? We had a number of guest speakers from within and around the industry speaking and a great selection of delegates attended. The day was a great success, generating lots of debates … Read more
No this isn’t about the song from Charlotte’s Web or the Scandinavian predilection for open sandwiches, it’s about the newfound choice in the HPC CPU market. For the first time since AMD’s ill-fated launch of Bulldozer (their successor to Opteron) the answer to the question, ‘Which CPU will be in my next HPC system?’ doesn’t … Read more
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