AI Adoption (in FSI)
I don’t often talk about AI but I thought I’d share a few insights and join a few dots on what I’m seeing on AI adoption within financial services.
HPC in Finance and Academia: Chocolate and Peanut Butter
HPC in academia and financial services has a surprising amount in common and I don’t just mean the obvious challenges of operating at scale.
Quantum #80
Issue #80 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. HPC Leadership Institute, our paper on AMD CPUs in FSI, diversity in silicon and public punch between Google and Microsoft.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 05 Oct 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Amazon makes some updates to PCS and its similarly named cousin. Google takes a shot at Microsoft and Microsoft gives show how to use Active Directory for cloud HPC.
Optimising Financial Services HPC Workloads on AMD EPYC 4th and 5th Generation Processors
We take a look at optimising financial risk analytics on modern AMD CPUs. Turns out we had quite a lot to say. About 5500 words in fact!
HPC Club: Isambard-AI Presentation Video
Simon McIntosh-Smith presents Isambard-AI at HPC Club, captured on video for those of you that missed it.
Quantum #79
Issue #79 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. New techniques in liquid cooling, what’s the HPC market worth, HPC Club update if you missed it and Barcelona Supercomputing Centre.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 28 Sep 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Google give you a way to spin up VMs when they become available, AWS Compute Optimizer gets a bit better and Azure Cycle Cloud plays nicely with Hammerspace.