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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.

Hardware Selection Benchmarks

Hardware Selection Benchmarks

What benchmarks should we add next to FLOPx?

Is AI actually intelligent — or just a smarter dice roll?

Is AI actually intelligent — or just a smarter dice roll?

I first heard the idea of using LLM inference as paths in

Quantum #106

Quantum #106

Issue #106 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. How are we going to power all the GPUs? And which ones are worth powering up? France goes Exascale.