Quantum #85
Issue #85 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. New VMs from the clouds. Quantum is getting all the love from Uncle Sam in HPC. SC25 and HPC Club coming up fast.
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HPC Cloud Updates WE 09 Nov 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Memory optimized VMs from both Azure and AWS in the form of the HPC specific HBv5 on Azure and the R8a on AWS. Google gives us new TPUs and Axion powered VMs too.
HPC Club CPUs/GPUs: Call for Questions
Got a question you’d like answered about CPUs/GPUs/APUs in HPC? Want to put it forward for the next HPC Club?
Compute Utilisation: Not what you think it means
A brief guide to understanding what utilisation in compute clusters means and how this relates to your code, supercomputers and cloud providers.
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.
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