Scaling Intelligence
Scaling Intelligence dives deep into the world of High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Hosted by the HPC-AI Leadership Organization (HALO) and Intersect360 Research, the podcast brings you interviews and conversations with the people defining the next era of computing — from scientists and industry leaders to policymakers and innovators. Together we explore how HPC and AI are transforming research, reshaping industries, and influencing national strategies. Whether it’s exascale breakthroughs, enterprise adoption, or the global race for AI leadership, Scaling Intelligence offers clear, accessible insights for professionals, researchers, and anyone curious about the future of technology. RSSVERIFY
Episodes
Sagar Dolas, Program Manager at SURF — the Dutch national organization for digital infrastructure in research and higher education — joins Kevin Jackson to challenge one of HPC's most enduring assumptions: that bigger machines produce more science.
Sagar argues that raw compute capacity and scientific productivity are not the same thing, and that the gap between them is growing. At SURF, he and his colleagues have tracke...
Thomas Hauser is the former director of the Computational and Information Systems Lab (CISL) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and a HALO member — one of the most consequential HPC facilities in Earth system science. In this episode, he traces his career from computational fluid dynamics and Cray-era supercomputing to leading the team behind Derecho — NCAR's newest system, deployed in 2023 with near...
Petr Bednarik is Enterprise AI Global Lead at Bull, the newly independent French sovereign AI company carved out of Atos and backed by the French sovereign fund. In this episode, Kevin Jackson talks with Petr about Bull's strategic transformation — from HPC hardware vendor to a full-stack AI provider covering infrastructure, data platforms, and end-to-end use case delivery. Petr brings a rare vantage point: he founded DataSen...
In this episode of Scaling Intelligence, Kevin Jackson speaks with Raphaël Brochard, General Manager of Energy Aware Runtime (EAR) — a spin-off from Barcelona Supercomputing Center — about why energy efficiency is becoming a hard constraint for AI and HPC data centers.
EAR delivers real-time, vendor-agnostic energy optimization across CPUs, GPUs, and I/O — automatically reducing GPU energy use by ~20% on AI workloa...
In this episode of Scaling Intelligence, Kevin Jackson speaks with Dr. Barr von Oehsen, Director of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), about how PSC is helping shape the future of AI infrastructure, quantum computing, and advanced research computing.
Barr shares his path from pure mathematics to leading one of the nation’s premier supercomputing centers, then explains why PSC is pushing beyond traditional HPC to suppo...
In this episode of Scaling Intelligence, Addison Snell speaks with Keith Gray, VP of Computational Science and Engineering at TotalEnergies, about why the energy sector is now the fastest-growing market for HPC and AI.
They discuss how AI is being integrated into physics-based workflows, why HPC remains essential for seismic imaging and reservoir simulation, and how advanced computing is accelerating research across oil and gas, car...
In this episode of Scaling Intelligence, we speak with Rosa Badia, Director of the HPC Software Research Area at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), live from SC25.
Rosa discusses her new leadership role overseeing BSC’s HPC software research, how the center is organizing work across HPC, AI, and hardware, and what she’s seeing as AI rapidly reshapes supercomputing. We explore BSC’s efforts in large language...
In this episode, recorded live at SC25, we talk to the CEA and GENCI team behind Alice Recoque, Europe’s newest exascale-class AI Factory. We cover why the system honors AI pioneer Alice Recoque, how AI + HPC + quantum converge in this architecture, what makes the access model so SME-friendly, and why this system matters for Europe’s sovereignty agenda.
A concise, insider look at the team building one of Europe’s m...
Host Kevin Jackson talks with Anders Jensen, Executive Director of Executive Director of the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), about Europe’s first exascale system JUPITER, AI factories, digital sovereignty, RISC-V innovation, and quantum ambitions—revealing how EuroHPC is shaping the future of Europe’s high-performance and energy-efficient computing.
Discover the human side of high-performance computing (HPC). In this episode of Scaling Intelligence, host Antonia Maar talks with Jay Lofstead, Principal Member of Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, about mentorship, inclusion, and community building — with a side of gelato. 🍦
Jay shares his unconventional journey into HPC and AI research, the story behind the now-global HPC Gelato Group, and his insights on fo...
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