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Quantum #103

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

HPC Cloud Release Notes

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

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?

Where’s HPC Club in 2026?

Have an opinion on what we should cover in our next HPC Club? Let me know!

Quantum #102

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

HPC Cloud Release Notes

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.

HAL Update: Cache Control Plane Complete

HAL Update: Cache Control Plane Complete

The control plane is dev complete. Allegedly. But the only thing that matters is production.

HPC Maturity and AI

HPC Maturity and AI

HPC capability and maturity is about so much more than size