Quantum #84
Issue #84 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Oak Ridge to get a new AMD supercomputer, Google’ spend on hardware placed in context, more benchmarking tips and don’t forget to sign up for HPC Club.
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HPC Cloud Updates WE 02 Nov 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Surprisingly quiet week for being this close SC25 and re:Invent.
Slurm of the Dead
The bubble popped but the jobs keep running. Just some fun and giggles for a Friday on Halloween
Interpreting Benchmarks: Throughput or Latency?
Benchmarks are fun but making sure you pick the right one and interpret the results correctly can be tricky
Quantum #83
Issue #83 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Quantum advantage from Google, HPC Club #5, understanding the impact of AWS outages on your own systems.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 26 Oct 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Google compile and run 100k applications across multiple CPU ISAs. AWS makes another tweak to PCS and gives us more EC2 metrics in CloudWatch and Azure has a new region coming up.
HPC Club #5
Reservations for the next HPC Club in London are now open.
Magical Cloud VMs
Can running HPC on the cloud actually result in higher performance than bare metal on prem? Turns out it can!