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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.

HPC Cloud Updates WE 05 Apr 2026

HPC Cloud Release Notes

HPC Cloud Updates WE 05 Apr 2026

Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Log aggregation for Slurm on Azure and faster VM startup

HMx Labs Announces Continuum™

HMx Labs Announces Continuum™

90% cheaper compute that feels like On Demand VMs but is built on unused spot capacity across multiple providers.

Quantum #105

Quantum #105

Issue #105 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. ARM makes a CPU, LLM-D goes open source, HPSFCon gives us hours of useful content, we give you a way to save money on cloud VM and vibe coding amusement.