HPC Cloud Updates WE 29 Mar 2026
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. AWS gives us updates to both PCS and the other one (Parallel Cluster). Learn how to use TPUs from Google.
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A non-update but still an update on HAL, our vibe coded HPC scheduler experiment
Announcing FLOPx: Data Discovery for Cloud VMs
Want to know what you’re getting when you spin up a cloud VM? How many cores, threads, memory? Actual benchmark performance numbers? We’ve got your back.
Quantum #104
Issue #104 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Updates from HPSFCon and GTC. A new GPU VM from Azure.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 22 Mar 2026
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Azure gives us a new Blackwell powered VM and announces a lot of end-of-life dates. AWS makes it easier to share your capacity reservations.
Quantum #103
Issue #103 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Nvidia GTC dominates of course but we get a quantum supercomputing reference architecture from IBM to read while AI eats all the infrastructure it can get its hands on, including your CPUs now.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 15 Mar 2026
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Some instance types available in new regions on AWS, some details on how to do air gapped inference on Azure and that’s your lot.
HAL Update: No More Tokens
Not enough tokens to provide a real update but AI does seem to be struggling now