Moore's Law and High Performance Computing (Changelog Interviews #284)

Todd Gamblin, a computer scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, joined us to talk about Moore’s Law, his work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the components of a micro-chip, and High Performance Computing.

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Featuring:

• Todd Gamblin – GitHub, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• The Changelog #267: Functional Programming with Eric Normand
• If you’re a fan of Request For Commits, you can hear Todd on episode #13
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory - High Performance Computing
• Dennard scaling
• Brain Chip - a brain-inspired computer by IBM
• What is NIF (National Ignition Facility)?
• Spack - flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers
• Slurm Workload Manager
• Lustre file system - open-source, parallel file system for HPC simulation environments
• Enterprise Linux

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