Quantum #89
Issue #89 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. Some HPC updates from AWS re:Invent, agentic AI for HPC and tackling numerical stability to reduce HPC costs.
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HPC Cloud Updates WE 07 Dec 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. AWS re:Invent ensures plenty of AWS news this week!
Battling Numerical Instability: Stop Blaming the CPU
Before you blame the new CPU for breaking your VaR, maybe ask what your compiler flags and math libraries have been up to after hours.
Comparing Cloud VM Performance Across Architectures
Is it worth making your code portable across CPU architectures when running on the cloud? 3 Clouds, 3 CPU Architectures, 3,000 Hours of Benchmarks. Here’s the Verdict
Quantum #88
Issue #88 of the weekly HPC newsletter by HMx Labs. A quiet week so I thought I’d share some of my thoughts on the last HPC Club and the future of computing in HPC.
HPC Cloud Updates WE 30 Nov 2025
Updates to AWS, Azure & GCP in the last week relevant for HPC practitioners. Unsurprisingly, given the huge number of updates last week, it’s a pretty quiet week but we do have an interesting capacity reservation feature and a new VM platform…
Schizophrenic AI
Recently I have been both incredibly impressed with AI and equally astounded by its uselessness.
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