Slurm of the Dead
The bubble popped but the jobs keep running. Just some fun and giggles for a Friday on Halloween
Interpreting Benchmarks: Throughput or Latency?
Benchmarks are fun but making sure you pick the right one and interpret the results correctly can be tricky
Quantum #83
Issue #83 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Quantum advantage from Google, HPC Club #5, understanding the impact of AWS outages on your own systems.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 26 Oct 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Google compile and run 100k applications across multiple CPU ISAs. AWS makes another tweak to PCS and gives us more EC2 metrics in CloudWatch and Azure has a new region coming up.
HPC Club #5
Reservations for the next HPC Club in London are now open.
Magical Cloud VMs
Can running HPC on the cloud actually result in higher performance than bare metal on prem? Turns out it can!
Quantum #82
Issue #82 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Benchmarks and numerical stability across CPUs coupled with Quant Minds. HPC and Dinosaurs. SMT/HT on or off. So much to talk about this week.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 19 Oct 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. PCS upgrades Slurm, Spot Placement API goes live and Google provide IBM Symphony Host Factory connectors.