Quantum #110
Issue #110 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. A new Exascale supercomputer, silicon still running short and yet we still haven’t figured out how to do heterogenous compute.
Kubernetes’ Place in a HPC World
Does using Kubernetes to run HPC workloads really make sense?
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HPC Release Notes Automation
Automating the weekly HPC release notes process which means it can get more comprehensive!
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
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
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 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
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.