Quantum #74
Issue #X74 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. HPC Club Bristol details confirmed. NVIDIA building out faster DC interconnects and Japanese supercomputers.
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HPC Cloud Updates WE 24 Aug 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. New Intel VM family on AWS and how to check your GPU VMs actually work before doing any real work with them.
HPC’s Biggest Problem Today?
Let’s talk about what’s frustrating you today instead of what’s on the horizon for once.
HPC Club: Isambard-AI
HPC Club @ The Forge in Bristol, about Isambard-AI, the UK’s fastest supercomputer from the man himself, Simon McIntosh-Smith.
Quantum #73
Issue #73 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Alpine coasters (but not in the Alps), HPC Club and heterogeneous HPC.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 17 Aug 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioner. If you’re on holiday like most of Europe you’re not missing a whole lot this week. A couple of new VM types or sizes. Some noise from Gartner with dots in squares but that’s pretty much your lot.
Metered Innovation
What impact does using a metered resource (such as the cloud) have on creativity and innovation?
HPC Club: Bristol Edition
Time for a little experiment. HPC Club outside of London.