Quantum #104
Issue #104 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Updates from HPSFCon and GTC. A new GPU VM from Azure.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 22 Mar 2026
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Azure gives us a new Blackwell powered VM and announces a lot of end-of-life dates. AWS makes it easier to share your capacity reservations.
Quantum #103
Issue #103 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Nvidia GTC dominates of course but we get a quantum supercomputing reference architecture from IBM to read while AI eats all the infrastructure it can get its hands on, including your CPUs now.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 15 Mar 2026
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Some instance types available in new regions on AWS, some details on how to do air gapped inference on Azure and that’s your lot.
HAL Update: No More Tokens
Not enough tokens to provide a real update but AI does seem to be struggling now
Where’s HPC Club in 2026?
Have an opinion on what we should cover in our next HPC Club? Let me know!
Quantum #102
Issue #102 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. More details and benchmarks on the HPC8a and H4D VMs. The GPU/Accelerator space looks more crowded and time to check your cloud continuity planning.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 08 Mar 2026
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. More details on the H4D and HPC8a this week.