Quantum #86
Issue #86 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Its SC25 week, as if you didn’t already know! Also, its QuantMinds this week in London too. All the details on both as well as your regular HPC news and updates.
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HPC Cloud Updates WE 16 Nov 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Including all the details of where they’ll be at SC25
Top500? Maybe Mid500
What does the Top500 really represent in the world of supercomputing?
The Hidden Cost of Numerical Instability
How much more are you paying for your financial risk analytics than you need to be?
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.
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.