Improving Utilisation in HPC & AI – Part 5
Part 5 of this mini series in improving utilisation and reducing costs looks at defragmenting elastic capacity.
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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.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 25 Jan 2026
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. We get new RTX PRO 6000 VMs from AWS and whole new Google Cloud region this week and IBM Cloud gives us spot pricing.
Improving Utilisation in HPC & AI – Part 2
Part 2 of how to get more from your expensive HPC and AI compute resources without spending more money