Silent Data Corruption
A brief introduction into the reality of hardware errors in large scale computing and breaking the myth of fail stop computing.
Quantum #77
Issue #77 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Scope creep, HPC Club sold out again and back to banality of daily life. HPC on Oracle Cloud? Maybe? New VM types in preview from Azure and Google and Chapter 2 of Intro to Supercomputing is out now! Oh and HPC Club is sold out.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 14 Sep 2025
AWS
Its been quiet for a while on the HPC front over
What’s Inside a Supercomputer?
About 3 months late but Chapter 2 of an Introduction to Supercomputing is finally available!
Chapter 2: The Assembly
Quantum #76
Issue #76 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Europe’s first exascale supercomputer goes live. Alternatives to GPU for acceleration and your usual Cloud HPC release notes.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 09 Sep 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Fairly quiet week again. We have a new AWS Region in New Zealand and more flexible ways to save on HPC compute on Google.
Faster HPC on Bare Metal or in the Cloud?
What’s faster cloud virtual machines or bare metal? The answer may surprise you. It certainly surprised me.