Random Bytes Vibing Banking Software Some thoughts on the impact of LLMs in developing banking software in light of Anthropic’s recent COBOL announcement.
Quantum Weekly Quantum #100 Issue #100 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. AWS gives us two gifts in the form of a new HPC VM type and nested virtualisation. CPUs becoming heterogeneous becomes a baked in certainty with Meta buying ARM CPUs. Microsoft becomes an Nvidia Exemplar
HPC Cloud Release Notes HPC Cloud Updates WE 22 Feb 2026 Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. AWS Gives us a new HPC specific AMD powered VM type and the ability to run nested virtualisation (but not on AMD). Azure and Nvidia get even cosier.
Random Bytes Hiring: Growth & Relationships Coordinator We’re looking to hire someone to help us get our house in order in terms of managing our client and partner relationships and our sales and marketing functions.
Quantum Weekly Quantum #99 Issue #99 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. HPC is riding AI’s coat tails, we get some new VMs, an example of how to do observability and I ask a lot of questions.
HPC Cloud Release Notes HPC Cloud Updates WE 15 Feb 2026 Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. M8azn VMs from AWS, some ideas on observability from Azure and a bunch of VMs made available in new regions in AWS.
Random Bytes Ingredients of a Benchmark How would you go about creating a single representative benchmark for all your different workloads. This isn’t a rhetorical question where I give you the answer at the end. I’m genuinely asking!