Supercomputer or distributed services?
Are financial risk systems HPC (ok HTC) systems? Are they distributed services? They’re usually both.
Quantum #59
Issue #59 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Schedulers, quantum networks, the importance of keys in the cloud, Frankenstein and Terminator.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 11 May 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Quiet week, AWS FSx available in a few more places, faster SSDs in more regions on Azure and that’s your lot.
Schedulers are Boring Dino-Tech
A short rant about why schedulers aren’t boring but also about so much that is missing from them and how much better they could be.
Want to Read a Book about Supercomputers?
Want to read a book about HPC? Want to give me some feedback too?
Chapter 1: The Limits of One
Quantum #58
Issue #58 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Star Wars, Cloud Hyperscalers and HPC schedulers
HPC Cloud Updates WE 04 May 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Azure Compute Fleet is GA, Google and OCP plan for a 1MW rack.