From Research to Reality: The Hewlett Packard Labs Podcast

In this week’s episode of the Hewlett Packard Labs Podcast “From Research to Reality”, Dejan Milojicic hosts Jim Greener, Director of Silicon Design Lab in Hewlett Packard Labs. Jim takes us through history of Silicon Design and how the landscape changed from his early career days till today. Jim discusses a couple of successful projects and he hints at possible future of silicon design. We discuss how the whole industry, not only components, transformed through a disaggregation. On a personal side, Jim is the first interviewee who grew up, went to school and spent his whole career in one town. He explains the wonderful outdoor opportunities in and around Ft Collins, Colorado.

In next week’s episode of the Hewlett Packard Labs Podcast “From Research to Reality”, Dejan Milojicic hosts Jim Greener, Director of Silicon Design Lab in Hewlett Packard Labs. Jim takes us through history of Silicon Design and how the landscape changed from his early career days till today. Jim discusses a couple of successful projects and he hints at possible future of silicon design. We discuss how the whole industry, not only components, transformed through a disaggregation. On a personal side, Jim is the first interviewee who grew up, went to school and spent his whole career in one town. He explains the wonderful outdoor opportunities in and around Ft Collins, Colorado.

In this week’s episode of the Hewlett Packard Labs Podcast “From Research to Reality”, Dejan Milojicic switches the chairs again. He is interviewed by Tom Coughlin on the topic of Technology Predictions. Dejan explains why, especially today, predictions are so important. He takes us through the history of his predictions work, such as the IEEE Computer Society (CS) 2022 Report; the annual CS predictions; and the most recent Future of Workforce report. He then predicts his own predictions work. If you are a fan of crystal balls, you should not miss this podcast.

In next week’s episode of the Hewlett Packard Labs Podcast “From Research to Reality”, Dejan Milojicic switches the chairs again. He is interviewed by Tom Coughlin on the topic of Technology Predictions. Dejan explains why, especially today, predictions are so important. He takes us through the history of his predictions work, such as the IEEE Computer Society (CS) 2022 Report; the annual CS predictions; and the most recent Future of Workforce report. He then predicts his own predictions work. If you are a fan of crystal balls, you should not miss this podcast.

In this week’s episode of the Hewlett Packard Labs Podcast “From Research to Reality”, Dejan Milojicic hosts Tiffani Jarnigan, director of sustainability innovation and partnerships, HPE Living Progress, and Cullen Bash, VP and director of the System Architecture Lab, Hewlett Packard Lab. We cover the basics of sustainability, what it means for environment, community, and society as a whole. Cullen and Tiffani share what the HPE sustainability team is doing to addresses everything from the environment, renewable energy procurement, emissions reduction, social work within the HPE Foundation, to helping our customers with their own sustainability journeys. Ending on a personal note, Tiffani shares that she not only works but also lives sustainably, and Cullen reveals his scuba diving history.

In next week’s episode of the Hewlett Packard Labs Podcast “From Research to Reality”, Dejan Milojicic hosts Tiffani Jarnigan, director of sustainability innovation and partnerships, HPE Living Progress, and Cullen Bash, VP and director of the System Architecture Lab, Hewlett Packard Lab. We will cover the basics of sustainability, what it means for environment, community, and society as a whole. Cullen and Tiffani will share what the HPE sustainability team is doing to addresses everything from the environment, renewable energy procurement, emissions reduction, social work within the HPE Foundation, to helping our customers with their own sustainability journeys. Ending on a personal note, Tiffani shares that she not only works but also lives sustainably, and Cullen reveals his scuba diving history.

Ray Beausoleil will talk about the basics of quantum computing, explain why it’s so popular, and discuss “quantum supremacy.” Ray will also explain the difference between traditional and quantum computers, including bits vs qubits. He will discuss the current state of the art vs the future of quantum computing.

In this week’s episode of Hewlett Packard Labs Podcast “From Research to Reality”, Dejan Milojicic hosts five colleagues across HPC/AI business and Hewlett Packard Labs: Nic Dube, Paolo Faraboschi, Arti Garg, Ken Leach, and Rangan Sukumar. Together they present a point of view on heterogeneous computing and they issue a call for action. Outside of the embedded space, the computing industry is unprepared to deal with a flood of new, specialized and unconventional computing elements. They argue that the community needs to embrace a major shift to enable heterogeneity in an equitable, secure, and sustainable manner.

In this week’s episode of Hewlett Packard Labs’ podcast, From Research to Reality, Dejan Milojicic hosts Ray Beausoleil, HPE Senior Fellow, SVP, and Director of the Large-Scale Integrated Photonics Lab.  
 
Ray will talk about the basics of quantum computing, explain why it’s so popular, and discuss “quantum supremacy.” Ray will also explain the difference between traditional and quantum computers, including bits vs qubits. He will discuss the current state of the art vs the future of quantum computing. In addition to mapping the quantum journey, he will also talk about his own, and explain how the two are interrelated.

In next week’s episode of Hewlett Packard Labs’ podcast, From Research to Reality, Dejan Milojicic hosts Ray Beausoleil, HPE Senior Fellow, SVP, and Director of the Large-Scale Integrated Photonics Lab.  
 
Ray will talk about the basics of quantum computing, explain why it’s so popular, and discuss “quantum supremacy.” Ray will also explain the difference between traditional and quantum computers, including bits vs qubits. He will discuss the current state of the art vs the future of quantum computing. In addition to mapping the quantum journey, he will also talk about his own, and explain how the two are interrelated.

In this week’s episode of Hewlett Packard Labs Podcast “From Research to Reality”, Dejan Milojicic hosts five colleagues across HPC/AI business and Hewlett Packard Labs: Nic Dube, Paolo Faraboschi, Arti Garg, Ken Leach, and Rangan Sukumar. Together they present a point of view on heterogeneous computing and they issue a call for action. Outside of the embedded space, the computing industry is unprepared to deal with a flood of new, specialized and unconventional computing elements. They argue that the community needs to embrace a major shift to enable heterogeneity in an equitable, secure, and sustainable manner.  This shift has to cover every aspect of how we design systems, including platforms, interconnects, software, applications, and IO subsystems. With the increasing innovation in the accelerator space and several new accelerators entering the market, there currently is a matching and unjustified diversity in the systems built around them, software, and management stacks.  While in some cases system-level diversity is justified by a different computing paradigm, the community needs to avoid “gratuitous differentiation”, which does not add value to the diverse computing elements, complicates the integration process and application portability, and causes a multiplication of efforts that shifts engineering resource away from core technology.   As a result, end users are facing increasing difficulty in reusing a single application code base across different accelerators. Similarly, system integrators are facing increasing difficulty in incorporating accelerators in their products, and software developers in developing code that is portable across multiple heterogeneous computing elements. To overcome these problems and to encourage focused innovation in the accelerators space requires understanding the system-level differentiation points and providing a set of recommendations to all the participants in the ecosystem, including accelerator technology providers, system integrators, software developers, the open source community, as well as the end users in both the scientific community and the cloud service providers.  The goals of these recommendations would be to identify the areas to open vs those where innovation is welcome. This document motivates this point of view on this topic, but also represents a “call for action” for all the major players to work together and improve the landscape of heterogeneous computing. This is an important next step that will benefit the entire industry, and collectively improve the ability to achieve faster results and better reuse across accelerated systems.

In next week’s episode of Hewlett Packard Labs Podcast “From Research to Reality”, Dejan Milojicic hosts five colleagues across HPC/AI business and Hewlett Packard Labs: Nic Dube, Paolo Faraboschi, Arti Garg, Ken Leach, and Rangan Sukumar. Together they present a point of view on heterogeneous computing and they issue a call for action. Outside of the embedded space, the computing industry is unprepared to deal with a flood of new, specialized and unconventional computing elements. They argue that the community needs to embrace a major shift to enable heterogeneity in an equitable, secure, and sustainable manner.  This shift has to cover every aspect of how we design systems, including platforms, interconnects, software, applications, and IO subsystems. With the increasing innovation in the accelerator space and several new accelerators entering the market, there currently is a matching and unjustified diversity in the systems built around them, software, and management stacks.  While in some cases system-level diversity is justified by a different computing paradigm, the community needs to avoid “gratuitous differentiation”, which does not add value to the diverse computing elements, complicates the integration process and application portability, and causes a multiplication of efforts that shifts engineering resource away from core technology.   As a result, end users are facing increasing difficulty in reusing a single application code base across different accelerators. Similarly, system integrators are facing increasing difficulty in incorporating accelerators in their products, and software developers in developing code that is portable across multiple heterogeneous computing elements. To overcome these problems and to encourage focused innovation in the accelerators space requires understanding the system-level differentiation points and providing a set of recommendations to all the participants in the ecosystem, including accelerator technology providers, system integrators, software developers, the open source community, as well as the end users in both the scientific community and the cloud service providers.  The goals of these recommendations would be to identify the areas to open vs those where innovation is welcome. This document motivates this point of view on this topic, but also represents a “call for action” for all the major players to work together and improve the landscape of heterogeneous computing. This is an important next step that will benefit the entire industry, and collectively improve the ability to achieve faster results and better reuse across accelerated systems.

In this week’s episode of the Hewlett Packard Labs Podcast “From Research to Reality”, Dejan Milojicic hosts Andrew Wheeler, Fellow and VP, Director of Hewlett Packard Labs. Andrew discusses his technical background and how he became director of Hewlett Packard Labs. He explains the roles of Labs and how they evolved over years. He then presents his vision for the Labs as well as the key programs. He focuses on technology transfer to business and contributions to industry verticals. Andrew also talks about his origins and how he practices outdoor activities.

In next week’s episode of the Hewlett Packard Labs Podcast “From Research to Reality”, Dejan Milojicic hosts Andrew Wheeler, Fellow and VP, Director of Hewlett Packard Labs. Andrew discusses his technical background and how he became director of Hewlett Packard Labs. He explains the roles of Labs and how they evolved over years. He then presents his vision for the Labs as well as the key programs. He focuses on technology transfer to business and contributions to industry verticals. Andrew also talks about his origins and how he practices outdoor activities.

Lin Nease, Fellow and VP, Chief Technologist for IoT at Point Next (advisory and professional services), Hewlett Packard Enterprise discusses his career journey as a CTO of multiple HP(E) businesses and how he became an HPE Fellow.

In next episode of the Hewlett Packard Labs Podcast “From Research to Reality”, Dejan Milojicic hosts Lin Nease, Fellow and VP, Chief Technologist for IoT at Point Next (advisory and professional services), Hewlett Packard Enterprise. Lin discusses his career journey as a CTO of multiple HP(E) businesses and how he became an HPE Fellow. He explains interesting problems and non-problems in the areas of IT/OT in a variety of verticals, such as farming industry, robotics, and Smart Cities. Lin is an avid bicyclist, retired runner and is enamored by complex systems. He does nerdy things to recover from daily work. 

Soumyendu Sarkar, Senior Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs discusses aspects of Trustworthy AI. Soumyendu discusses industry verticals where trustworthy AI is essential, relationship to security, and privacy and humans in the loop. He also relates trustworthiness to bias and to explainability. He concludes with his favorite hobby, computational photography.

Anu Mercian and Diman Zad Tootaghaj, senior research scientist and research scientist at Hewlett Packard Labs discuss various aspects of deploying and using accelerators at Edge. They analyze a number of quantifiable indicators such as performance, scale, power, privacy and security, as well as qualitative, such as ease of development and flexibility. They explain major technical and regulatory challenges. They conclude with the topic of life-work balance, how they wind down from technology, and the importance of family

In next episode of the Hewlett Packard Labs Podcast “From Research to Reality”, Dejan Milojicic and Soumyendu Sarkar talk Trustworthy AI. Sarkar, Senior Distinguished Technologist at Hewlett Packard Labs, discusses industry verticals in which trustworthy AI is essential. He delves into security and privacy and talks about how to always keep humans in the loop. What’s the relationship between trustworthiness, bias, and explainability? Sarkar will tell you. Since this tech podcast never ignores humanity, Sarkar about his favorite hobby, computational photography. 

Faraz Ahmed and Lianjie Cao, research scientists at Hewlett Packard Labs discuss aspects of orchestrating (managing) Edge. They compare edge vs data center orchestration and discuss ease of deployment as an orchestration use case. They explain major challenges in scaling and securing edge orchestration. They put their research in the context of HPE strategy and HPE products. They conclude with their favorite hobbies: hiking, badminton.  And hiking.