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
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
The control plane is dev complete. Allegedly. But the only thing that matters is production.
HPC Maturity and AI
HPC capability and maturity is about so much more than size
Quantum #101
Issue #101 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. A new HPC VM from Google, analysis of CPU based HPC in the cloud, more GPUs from AMD for Meta and GPUs in your storage cluster too by VAST.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 01 Mar 2026
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Some confidential and bare metal variants of VMs and lots more types in more places. Oh and Google’s H4D is now available!
HAL Update: A Confidence Game
An update on HAL, the HPC Vibe Coding experiment. One step forward and two steps back?
Vibing Banking Software
Some thoughts on the impact of LLMs in developing banking software in light of Anthropic’s recent COBOL announcement.