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Quantum #109

Quantum #109

Issue #109 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Cerberas files for an IPO, Google gives us TPU v8, Meta adopts Graviton, Bolt Graphics tapes out their first GPU and we try and make workloads a tiny bit more portable.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 26 Apr 2026

HPC Cloud Release Notes

HPC Cloud Updates WE 26 Apr 2026

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. PCS supports Slurm 25.11, Azure gives you NetApp ransomware scanning and Google Cloud Next Updates.

Testing for Numerical Stability and Can AI Help Fix It

Testing for Numerical Stability and Can AI Help Fix It

Can LLMs fix numerical stability problems in your code. Let’s design a little experiment to find out and how much would you just like a way to just validate your numerical stability across CPU generations and architectures.

FINOS ORB: One Cloud API to Rule Them All?

FINOS ORB: One Cloud API to Rule Them All?

FINOS announced the Open Resource Broker yesterday, an adaptive layer to allow HPC schedulers to control cloud capacity designed to work across multiple clouds and schedulers. We’re all on in and are helping to create it.

Quantum #108

Quantum #108

Issue #108 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Slurm is still in the limelight with US Gov finally wondering Nvidia’s acquisition will affect national supercomputers. Data for AI might need another look beyond just scaping the internet and sovereign is still a thing it seems.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 19 Apr 2026

HPC Cloud Release Notes

HPC Cloud Updates WE 19 Apr 2026

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Todd Gamblin of LLNL talks AI integration with the folk from Google. AWS embraces multi cloud. Azure lets you bring your own keys.

Quantum #107

Quantum #107

Issue #107 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Slurm got a bit of attention this week from Nvidia and the analysts but I think the bigger picture here is being missed. AWS gave us another way to abuse S3 and the DOE should probably talk to CERN.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 12 Apr 2026

HPC Cloud Release Notes

HPC Cloud Updates WE 12 Apr 2026

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. A new Azure region, a filesystem over AWS S3 and running GPUs at scale from Google.