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July 20, 2012

Podcast: Whamcloud Under New Ownership; Intel Adds to Exascale Portfolio

This weeks topics include:

Brent Gorda and Boyd Davis interview
What the Whamcloud buy means for Intel
Supercomputing veteran Allan Snavely dies unexpectedly

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120720_Episode176.mp3 - Running time: 22:02

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Posted by - July 20, 2012 @ 12:19 PM, Pacific Daylight Time

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