HPC Cloud Updates WE 08 Feb 2026
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Disk optimised Intel Xeon 6 VMs from AWS and a new region coming in Thailand from Azure
HAL Update: Data Plane Specification
A small update on our AI first coding experiment and an opportunity for you to provide input on what a HPC focused data plane should look like
Improving Utilisation in HPC & AI – Part 5
Part 5 of this mini series in improving utilisation and reducing costs looks at defragmenting elastic capacity.
Quantum #97
Issue #97 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs.We got some new (CPU only) VMs from Azure and Google last week, a new inference chip from Microsoft in the Maia 200, Cambridge gets £36m to build the next UK supercomputer as the cloud becomes more prevalent.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 01 Feb 2026
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. We get Intel, AMD and ARM powered VMs from Azure and Google week.
Improving Utilisation in HPC & AI – Part 4
Part 4 of mini series on improving utilisation (aka reducing unit cost) looks at adjust the supply of compute to deal with demand variability
Improving Utilisation in HPC and AI – Part 3
Part 3 in the mini series on improving utilisation rates in HPC and AI. The first (but not the last) on dealing with fragmentation impacting utilisation rates.
Quantum #96
Issue #96 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Spot pricing on clouds, new GPU VMs, vibe coding, and ideas for efficiency in this week’s roundup.